Money CashwordSouth Dakota Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The South Dakota Lottery sells Money Cashword as a $3 ticket. Top prizes have been claimed faster than tickets sold, so the $25,000 prize now runs about 1 in 420,471 by our estimate, against 1 in 271,928 at launch. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 271,928 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 272K at launch, about 1 in 420K now. The $25,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
- Win rate is typical, around 23% per ticket (1 in 4.31).
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25,000 | 1 in 270,000 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $500 | 1 in 108,000 | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| $300 | 1 in 33,750 | 32 | 12 | 38% |
| $50 | 1 in 500 | 2,199 | 718 | 33% |
| $30 | 1 in 133 | 8,173 | 2,882 | 35% |
| $20 | 1 in 80 | 13,581 | 4,592 | 34% |
| $15 | 1 in 40 | 27,189 | 9,719 | 36% |
| $10 | 1 in 67 | 16,346 | 5,690 | 35% |
| $9 | 1 in 33 | 32,604 | 13,072 | 40% |
| $5 | 1 in 29 | 38,059 | 13,883 | 36% |
| $3 | 1 in 10 | 114,172 | 46,985 | 41% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $25,000 top prize left on July 10, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.6% 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
- 1150
- Ticket Price
- $3
- Start Date
- 1/10/2025
- Payout %
- 65.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $3 ticket in South Dakota
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money Box Bingo | 53 | 1 in 4.30 | 65.2% | $20K · 3 of 4 | 1.1% |
| Money Cashword (this game) | 34 | 1 in 4.31 | 65.5% | $25K · 1 of 4 | 0.6% |
| Vaults of Cash | 30 | 1 in 4.81 | 66.0% | $25K · 1 of 3 | 1.0% |
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.