2 of 5
top prizes of $200,000 still out there
Ticket price$5
Top prize$200,000
Launch odds1 in 4.5
Prizes remaining (all tiers)893,430
Est. tickets left
≈55%
Mega Bucks is a $5 scratch-off from the North Carolina Lottery (game #45) with a top prize of $200,000 and overall odds of 1 in 4.5 at launch. 3 of 5 top prizes are gone, 2 are still unclaimed, and an estimated 55% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 893,430 prizes are still out there (it started with 1,625,797).
Some games are best understood one row of the table at a time. On "Mega Bucks" right now, the most common win still waiting is $10 — 399,727 of them on the board — plus seven prizes of $5,000 sitting just under the top end. The full count, top to bottom, is right below. The full tier-by-tier count is in the table below — every prize, counted.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $200,000 | 2 | 5 |
| $5,000 | 7 | 15 |
| $1,000 | 31 | 62 |
| $500 | 100 | 188 |
| $200 | 131 | 250 |
| $100 | 38,608 | 73,070 |
| $50 | 30,987 | 58,267 |
| $30 | 16,403 | 30,538 |
| $20 | 65,473 | 122,031 |
| $10 | 399,727 | 731,707 |
| $5 | 341,961 | 609,664 |
Prize counts come straight from official North Carolina lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
2 of the 5 top prizes of $200,000 are still unclaimed, according to official North Carolina lottery data from Sep 1, 2026.
Mega Bucks is a $5 scratch-off. It is game #45 from the North Carolina Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 4.5, counting every prize tier. Odds shift as tickets sell and prizes get claimed — that's exactly what the prize table on this page tracks.
Prize counts come straight from official North Carolina lottery data, last refreshed on Sep 1, 2026. SmartScratcher updates every morning.
Prize counts are just the start. SmartScratcher turns them into a ticket value, a 0–100 score, and a straight answer for every game — so you skip the picked-clean ones and play the good ones.
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