Are the top prizes in $25,000 GOLD RUSH still available?

1 of 3 top prizes worth $25,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $25,000 GOLD RUSH ticket pay back?

You get back about 64¢ 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 · $5 ticket · #1165

$25,000 GOLD RUSH

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $25,000. A $5 ticket returns about 64¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 64¢ about 69¢ when the game launched

Top prize $25,000 1 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 73% about 73% of tickets already sold · roughly 75,658 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.09 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$25,000	1	3
$1,000	3	14
$100	80	330
$50	676	2,684
$25	1,594	6,896
$20	1,794	8,044
$10	5,613	21,843
$5	7,954	27,598

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6382 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6861 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.09
Estimated tickets printed: 275,715
Estimated tickets remaining: 75,658
Estimated fraction sold: 0.7256
Game number: #1165

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.