Are the top prizes in $1,000 GOLD RUSH still available?

2 of 15 top prizes worth $1,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $1,000 GOLD RUSH ticket pay back?

You get back about 52¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the South Dakota Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

South Dakota · $1 ticket · #1163

$1,000 GOLD RUSH

Updated today

2 top prizes are still unclaimed at $1,000. A $1 ticket returns about 52¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 52¢ about 62¢ when the game launched

Top prize $1,000 2 of 15 still unclaimed

How far along 79% about 79% of tickets already sold · roughly 130,121 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.35 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$1,000	2	15
$100	1	53
$50	13	107
$20	145	820
$10	837	5,074
$5	2,675	16,248
$3	4,647	26,410
$2	6,461	30,475
$1	13,050	60,924

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5173 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6154 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.35
Estimated tickets printed: 609,548
Estimated tickets remaining: 130,121
Estimated fraction sold: 0.7865
Game number: #1163

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

Source: the South Dakota Lottery's own game page. Every figure here is an estimate — how we figure them.