$1,000 Gold RushSouth Dakota Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$1,000 Gold Rush costs $1 a ticket from the South Dakota Lottery. The South Dakota Lottery stops selling it on October 24, 2026, with 2 of 15 $1,000 top prizes still unclaimed at the last report. Top prizes have been claimed faster than tickets sold, so the $1,000 prize now runs about 1 in 60,080 by our estimate, against 1 in 40,637 at launch. No $1 ticket in South Dakota has better overall odds: 1 in 4.35, against 3 others at that price.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 41K at launch, about 1 in 60K now. The $1,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Prize quality is thin, with the bigger winners mostly gone.
- Low inventory: most of this game's prizes have already been claimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | 1 in 40,000 | 15 | 2 | 13% |
| $100 | 1 in 12,000 | 53 | 1 | 2% |
| $50 | 1 in 6,000 | 107 | 13 | 12% |
| $20 | 1 in 750 | 820 | 145 | 18% |
| $10 | 1 in 120 | 5,074 | 832 | 16% |
| $5 | 1 in 38 | 16,248 | 2,662 | 16% |
| $3 | 1 in 23 | 26,410 | 4,615 | 17% |
| $2 | 1 in 20 | 30,475 | 6,410 | 21% |
| $1 | 1 in 10 | 60,924 | 12,943 | 21% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $1,000 top prizes left on July 10, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week.
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- South Dakota
- Game Number
- 1163
- Ticket Price
- $1
- Start Date
- 6/5/2025
- Payout %
- 61.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $1 ticket in South Dakota
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frosty Fun | 49 | 1 in 4.67 | 63.1% | $1K · 8 of 8 | - |
| Lucky 7 | 35 | 1 in 4.37 | 61.7% | $500 · 26 of 60 | 1.0% |
| $1,000 Gold Rush (this game) | 18 | 1 in 4.35 | 61.5% | $1K · 2 of 15 | 0.1% |
| Moola | 17 | 1 in 4.37 | 61.7% | $500 · 13 of 90 | 0.4% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.