Cash 5 - How to Play | NC Education Lottery

Jackpot Estimate

$100,000

Next Drawing

Daily 11:22 PM

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Carolina Cash 5 is North Carolina’s rolling jackpot game that gives you a chance to win every night of the week. For just $1, you get a shot at jackpots that start at $100,000 and it keeps climbing until somebody wins it all. Add Double Play for $1 and your Cash 5 numbers are entered into a second drawing for a chance to win additional prizes. And that’s not all! Add EZ Match for $1 a play and you could win up to $500 instantly. A draw game with an instant-win feature? Yes, we did! Check out all the excitement with Carolina Cash 5.

Get to know Cash 5, Double Play and EZ Match

Learn & Play for Fun

Easy To Play

Pick five numbers from 1 to 43.
Choose Quick Pick to have the terminal randomly pick numbers for you.
Or simply ask your retailer for a Quick Pick.
Each Cash 5 play is $1.
Add Double Play for $1 per play.
Add EZ Match for $1 per play.
Up to five sets of numbers can be played per play slip.
Select Multidraw to enter up to 28 consecutive drawings.

More Ways To Win

The Cash 5 jackpot is won by matching all five white balls, in any order.
Additional prizes can be won by matching 4, 3, or 2 numbers.
By adding EZ Match, you can win instantly by matching any EZ Match numbers.
By adding Double Play, you double your ways to win with a second drawing.

Play Slip

Pick five numbers from 1 to 43
Choose Quick Pick by marking QP
Mark to void the panel
Add EZ Match and/or Double Play for $1 each per play
Select to play consecutive drawings
Add Double Play and/or EZMatch to all plays. Each add-on is an additional $1 per play.

Prizes & Odds
Match	Prize	Pool	Odds 1 in
All odds are approximate. Overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 10.5. The jackpot is an estimate and is paid in accordance with NCEL game rules. *Prizes may become pari-mutuel, meaning that the prize amounts are shared equally among all winners of the available pool for that prize level.
5	Jackpot*	65.30%	962,598.0
4	$250*	9.87%	5,066.0
3	$5	7.30%	136.9
2	$1	17.53%	11.4

Double Play

Can be added to any Cash 5 ticket for just $1.
When you add Double Play, the numbers you chose for the Cash 5 base game will be entered into a second drawing.
The prizes you could win for matching 4,3, or 2 numbers are larger than the Cash 5 base game.
The Double Play top prize of $50,000 is won when you match all 5 numbers in the second drawing.

Double Play Prizes & Odds
Match	Prize	Odds 1 in
All odds are approximate. Overall odds of winning a Double Play prize are 1 in 10.5. *Prizes may become pari-mutuel, meaning that the prize amounts are shared equally among all winners of the available pool for that prize level.
5	$50,000*	962,598.0
4	$500*	5,066.0
3	$12	136.9
2	$3	11.4

EZ Match

Can be added to any Cash 5 ticket for just $1.
The terminal provides a ticket with five EZ Match numbers for you at the time of purchase.
Win up to $500 instantly if any of the EZ Match and Cash 5 numbers match.
Sample ticket with two EZ Match plays:
- Play area A: Two EZ Match numbers match two of the Cash 5 numbers. Each match in the example shows a $10 instant prize, for a total instant prize amount of $20 for that play.
- Play area B: None of the EZ Match numbers match any of the Cash 5 numbers, so no instant prize is won.

EZ Match Prizes & Odds
Prize	Odds 1 in
All odds are approximate. Overall odds of winning an EZ Match prize are 1 in 4.7. EZ Match prize structure and approximate odds of winning are subject to change. For current information call Customer Services at 877-962-7529. If you win an EZ Match prize, you can cash in your winnings at a retailer location and an EXCHANGE TICKET will be printed for that evening’s Cash 5 drawing and for any subsequent drawings still active on that ticket.
$500	84,000.0
$250	84,000.0
$100	12,000.0
$50	3,360.0
$20	1,120.0
$10	131.3
$5	168.0
$4	78.5
$3	14.0
$2	9.4

Don't Forget

Cash 5 sales end nightly at the times below and resume after the drawing.
- Retail location sales end at 10:59pm
- Online Play sales end at 10:58pm
Once a ticket is generated it can't be canceled, so check your play slip to make sure everything is correct.
The ticket, not the play slip, is your proof of purchase. So sign your ticket immediately.

Game Rules

Want to Watch?

Cash 5 drawings will be held & televised on nightly at approximately 11:22 p.m. Watch the drawings online or on any of these stations:
- WRAL Raleigh (ch.5)
- WITN Greenville, New Bern & Washington (ch.7)
- WAXN Charlotte (TV64)
- WGHP Winston-Salem, Greensboro & High Point (ch.8)
- WLOS Asheville (ch.13)

Have a retailer scan your ticket and keep playing your favorite numbers.

Repeat Play is a feature available for all draw games that allows a retailer to simply scan the bar code on your existing ticket so you can replay your favorite numbers fast and easy! Repeat Play is an alternative to completing a play slip.

Repeat Play reprints all the selections from the original ticket including: your numbers, the number of draws, boards, play type, play amount, Megaplier and Power Play Option. Quick Pick wagers will be printed with the same numbers as the original wager. Tickets must be replayed within 30 days of original ticket creation. Repeat Play does recognize MultiDraw and will begin the draws on the first draw day available and continue for as many draws as the original ticket. Repeat Play is not available for Advance Play.

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MUST BE 18 TO PLAY. Odds to win a prize and the top prize vary based on the game or promotion. See game or promotion pages for more detail.

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