$70,000 Gold RushSouth Dakota Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$70,000 Gold Rush is one of the South Dakota Lottery's $10 games. Its ValueScore of 66/100 (Good) makes it 5th out of 6 $10 tickets in South Dakota. At launch, about 1 in 138,563 tickets carried a prize of $10,000 or more.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 139K at launch, about 1 in 125K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $70,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Winning tickets come up at a 25% clip (1 in 3.99), above the norm.
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $70,000 | 1 in 135,000 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| $2,500 | 1 in 33,750 | 8 | 4 | 50% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,929 | 149 | 71 | 48% |
| $100 | 1 in 109 | 2,558 | 1,097 | 43% |
| $50 | 1 in 20 | 13,667 | 5,991 | 44% |
| $25 | 1 in 40 | 6,903 | 3,040 | 44% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 18,414 | 8,141 | 44% |
| $10 | 1 in 10 | 27,754 | 12,867 | 46% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $70,000 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, slower than the average for South Dakota's $10 games (1.1% 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
- 1166
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 6/5/2025
- Payout %
- 72.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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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 | 0.9% |
| PLINKO | 83 | 1 in 4.00 | 70.9% | $75K · 2 of 2 | 1.2% |
| 50X Extreme Cash | 70 | 1 in 3.98 | 72.0% | $100K · 1 of 2 | 1.1% |
| Cashword Supreme | 69 | 1 in 3.67 | 70.0% | $70K · 1 of 2 | 1.0% |
| $70,000 Gold Rush (this game) | 66 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.0% | $70K · 1 of 2 | 0.6% |
| $50, $150, $250 | 58 | 1 in 9.56 | 72.2% | $250 · 330 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.