Are the top prizes in $5,000 GOLD RUSH still available?

2 of 6 top prizes worth $5,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $5,000 GOLD RUSH ticket pay back?

You get back about 53¢ 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 · $2 ticket · #1164

$5,000 GOLD RUSH

Updated today

2 top prizes are still unclaimed at $5,000. A $2 ticket returns about 53¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 53¢ about 67¢ when the game launched

Top prize $5,000 2 of 6 still unclaimed

How far along 82% about 82% of tickets already sold · roughly 75,222 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.4 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$5,000	2	6
$100	7	122
$50	55	283
$30	58	578
$20	629	7,148
$10	1,359	11,425
$5	2,390	17,153
$4	2,705	17,894
$2	7,953	42,887

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5320 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6690 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.4
Estimated tickets printed: 428,982
Estimated tickets remaining: 75,222
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8246
Game number: #1164

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.