PLINKOSouth Dakota Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
PLINKO is a $10 ticket from the South Dakota Lottery. At launch, about 1 in 185,176 tickets carried a prize of $10,000 or more. It pays back about $0.71 per $1 on average, in line with South Dakota's other $10 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 185K at launch, about 1 in 163K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $75,000 prizes have been claimed.
- 2 of 2 top prizes are still unclaimed, and the mid-tier pool holds up too.
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.71 per $1 spent.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $75,000 | 1 in 180,000 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 24,000 | 15 | 13 | 87% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,500 | 245 | 209 | 85% |
| $100 | 1 in 102 | 3,628 | 3,161 | 87% |
| $50 | 1 in 25 | 14,709 | 12,858 | 87% |
| $30 | 1 in 30 | 12,321 | 10,790 | 88% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 24,699 | 21,695 | 88% |
| $10 | 1 in 10 | 36,969 | 32,572 | 88% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $75,000 top prizes left on September 16, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| September 16 | Our records begin | 2 of 2 |
| November 7 | Latest count, none claimed | 2 of 2 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to the average for South Dakota's $10 games (0.9% a week). By tickets sold, it is the estimated #12 best seller of the 32 South Dakota tickets we can rank, at about 3,800 tickets 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
- 1197
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 8/6/2026
- Payout %
- 70.9%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Every $10 ticket in South Dakota
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 Frenzy | 88 | 1 in 3.96 | 73.0% | $50K · 2 of 2 | 0.8% |
| PLINKO (this game) | 81 | 1 in 4.00 | 70.9% | $75K · 2 of 2 | 1.0% |
| $70,000 Gold Rush | 65 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.0% | $70K · 1 of 2 | 0.6% |
| 50X Extreme Cash | 65 | 1 in 3.98 | 72.0% | $100K · 1 of 2 | 1.1% |
| Cashword Supreme | 63 | 1 in 3.67 | 70.0% | $70K · 1 of 2 | 1.0% |
| $50, $150, $250 | 57 | 1 in 9.56 | 72.2% | $250 · 324 of 654 | - |
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.