How many $150,000 prizes are left in LOTERIA® Fiesta?

1 of 6 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 683,119.

What are the odds of winning anything on LOTERIA® Fiesta?

1 in 3.28 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 3.86 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 3.28, and the odds of winning more than the $5 ticket price are 1 in 5.88.

Is LOTERIA® Fiesta worth buying?

Its current payout is 75.8% ($3.79 back per $5 ticket), rank #23 of 62 in North Carolina. The best $5 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is $5 MONOPOLY® (#22, $5) at 70.3%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.

How many LOTERIA® Fiesta tickets are left?

We estimate 683,119 of roughly 7,327,640 printed tickets are unsold (90.7% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.

When did LOTERIA® Fiesta launch and is it still on sale?

We first saw it on July 1, 2025. It is still on sale.

LOTERIA® Fiesta — $5 North Carolina Scratch-Off #2

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LOTERIA® Fiesta North Carolina scratch-off ticket

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LOTERIA® Fiesta (#2) is a $5 North Carolina scratch-off. As of October 25, 2026 it ranks #23 of 62 active games on current payout (75.8%, $3.79 expected back per ticket) and #2 of 16 $5 games, #6 on any-prize odds (1 in 3.28) and #11 on top-prize odds (1 in 683,119). Since launch the payout has risen 6.8 points (69.0% at launch) and your chance of winning something has risen 17.8% (1 in 3.86 at launch). 1 of 6 top prizes of $150,000 remain, and we estimate 683,119 tickets are still unsold (90.7% sold). That is a middle-of-the-pack game: fine to play, but the ranking lists show better value at the same price.

Current payout

75.8%

69.0% at launch

Expected value

$3.79

per $5 ticket

Any-prize odds

1 in 3.28

1 in 3.86 at launch

Cash odds

1 in 3.28

excludes free tickets

Profit odds

1 in 5.88

win more than $5

$600+ odds

1 in 341,559

claim-at-lottery prizes

Top prizes left

1 of 6

$150,000 each

Tickets remaining

9.3%

≈ 683,119 tickets

Top prize still waiting. Last 9% of tickets, a top prize still waiting: better jackpot odds than on launch day (1 in 683,119, was 1 in 1.2 million). More North Carolina games like this.

Prizes remaining

Every prize level in LOTERIA® Fiesta, with the odds printed at launch, the odds today given what is left, and how much of each tier is still unclaimed. To set its odds of $1,000 or more (or any other prize size) against every other North Carolina game, see odds by prize size. Across all tiers, 208,313 of 1,896,261 prizes (11.0%) are still out there.

Prize	Odds at launch	Odds now	Total	Claimed	Remaining	% left
$150,000	1 in 1,221,220	1 in 683,119	6	5	1	16.7%
$10,000	1 in 610,610	all claimed	12	12	0	0.0%
$1,000	1 in 407,073	1 in 683,119	18	17	1	5.6%
$500	1 in 58,619	1 in 48,794	125	111	14	11.2%
$300	1 in 29,193	1 in 25,301	251	224	27	10.8%
$200	1 in 11,743	1 in 11,778	624	566	58	9.3%
$100	1 in 748.4	1 in 754.0	9,791	8,885	906	9.3%
$75	1 in 1,493	1 in 1,570	4,907	4,472	435	8.9%
$50	1 in 240.4	1 in 270.4	30,476	27,950	2,526	8.3%
$40	1 in 803.4	1 in 831.0	9,121	8,299	822	9.0%
$30	1 in 104.5	1 in 121.2	70,138	64,503	5,635	8.0%
$25	1 in 60.0	1 in 61.2	122,104	110,936	11,168	9.1%
$20	1 in 48.0	1 in 44.1	152,661	137,175	15,486	10.1%
$15	1 in 30.0	1 in 28.9	244,244	220,569	23,675	9.7%
$10	1 in 14.1	1 in 12.3	519,019	463,588	55,431	10.7%
$5	1 in 10.0	1 in 7.41	732,764	640,636	92,128	12.6%
All prizes	1 in 3.86	1 in 3.28	1,896,261	1,687,948	208,313	11.0%

How LOTERIA® Fiesta has moved

Current payout (solid) and any-prize odds (dashed, inverted so up is better) since we began tracking LOTERIA® Fiesta. 121 daily readings.

Recent claims of $1,000 and up

October 3, 2026: one $10,000 prize was claimed; 0 remain.
September 27, 2025: one $150,000 prize was claimed; 4 remain.
September 26, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 12 remain.
September 25, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 13 remain.
September 20, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 14 remain.
September 19, 2025: one $150,000 prize was claimed; 5 remain.
September 6, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 15 remain.
August 19, 2025: one $10,000 prize was claimed; 9 remain.
August 2, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 16 remain.
July 24, 2025: one $10,000 prize was claimed; 10 remain.
July 8, 2025: one $10,000 prize was claimed; 11 remain.
July 2, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 17 remain.

Derived from day-to-day changes in the official remaining-prize counts, so the date is when the lottery published the change.

LOTERIA® Fiesta: common questions

How many $150,000 prizes are left in LOTERIA® Fiesta?: 1 of 6 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 683,119.
What are the odds of winning anything on LOTERIA® Fiesta?: 1 in 3.28 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 3.86 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 3.28, and the odds of winning more than the $5 ticket price are 1 in 5.88.
Is LOTERIA® Fiesta worth buying?: Its current payout is 75.8% ($3.79 back per $5 ticket), rank #23 of 62 in North Carolina. The best $5 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is $5 MONOPOLY® (#22, $5) at 70.3%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
How many LOTERIA® Fiesta tickets are left?: We estimate 683,119 of roughly 7,327,640 printed tickets are unsold (90.7% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
When did LOTERIA® Fiesta launch and is it still on sale?: We first saw it on July 1, 2025. It is still on sale.

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