Extreme 8sSouth Dakota Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Extreme 8s costs $5 a ticket from the South Dakota Lottery. Only 69% of all its prizes are left, yet 4 of the 4 $8,888 top prizes are still unclaimed. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 61,446 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 61K at launch, about 1 in 42K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $8,888 prizes have been claimed.
- Fresh prize pool: most of this game's prizes are still on the table.
- You get back about $0.68 per $1 on average, which is normal for this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,888 | 1 in 60,000 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| $88 | 1 in 103 | 2,397 | 1,602 | 67% |
| $50 | 1 in 188 | 1,308 | 878 | 67% |
| $28 | 1 in 60 | 4,097 | 2,791 | 68% |
| $18 | 1 in 30 | 8,206 | 5,588 | 68% |
| $8 | 1 in 14 | 17,404 | 12,017 | 69% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 24,552 | 17,145 | 70% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 4 $8,888 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 1.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, faster than the average for South Dakota's $5 games (0.9% a 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
- 1181
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 5/11/2026
- Payout %
- 68.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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All 12 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500 Frenzy | 64 | 1 in 4.51 | 70.0% | $25K · 2 of 3 | 1.2% |
| Money Madness | 63 | 1 in 4.21 | 69.1% | $25K · 2 of 3 | 0.9% |
| Extreme 8s (this game) | 63 | 1 in 4.24 | 68.0% | $9K · 4 of 4 | 1.3% |
| Season’s Greetings | 53 | 1 in 4.11 | 60.0% | $10K · 3 of 3 | - |
| Hidden Gems | 52 | 1 in 4.07 | 68.3% | $25K · 2 of 3 | 1.5% |
| One-Word Crossword | 48 | 1 in 4.01 | 67.6% | $40K · 1 of 3 | 0.9% |
| 20X Extreme Cash | 48 | 1 in 4.35 | 69.0% | $40K · 1 of 2 | 1.2% |
| Merry & Bright | 47 | 1 in 4.11 | 69.2% | $10K · 1 of 3 | 0.1% |
| $25,000 Gold Rush | 46 | 1 in 4.09 | 68.6% | $25K · 1 of 3 | 0.8% |
| Max Money | 43 | 1 in 4.35 | 68.7% | $25K · 1 of 3 | 0.9% |
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.