Are the top prizes in Hot $2,000 still available?

390 of 2048 top prizes worth $2,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a Hot $2,000 ticket pay back?

You get back about 70¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the North Carolina Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

North Carolina · $10 ticket · #3

Hot $2,000

Updated today

390 top prizes are still unclaimed at $2,000. A $10 ticket returns about 70¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 70¢ about 72¢ when the game launched

Top prize $2,000 390 of 2048 still unclaimed

How far along 80% about 80% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.2 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.8 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$2,000	390	2,048
$500	93	521
$200	196	1,041
$100	11,370	61,445
$50	45,492	245,412
$40	14,640	78,199
$20	118,382	614,013
$10	125,426	613,941

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6956 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7248 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.8
Estimated tickets printed: 6,143,156
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,219,712
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8015
Game number: #3

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

Source: the North Carolina Lottery's own game page. Every figure here is an estimate — how we figure them.