Are the top prizes in MAX MONEY still available?

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

What does a MAX MONEY ticket pay back?

You get back about 65¢ 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 · #1161

MAX MONEY

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $25,000. A $5 ticket returns about 65¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 65¢ about 69¢ when the game launched

Top prize $25,000 1 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 71% about 71% of tickets already sold · roughly 71,383 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.35 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$25,000	1	3
$1,000	1	4
$100	148	585
$50	660	2,668
$25	2,226	8,154
$20	1,068	4,074
$10	4,538	16,311
$5	7,355	24,468

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6527 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6878 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.35
Estimated tickets printed: 244,761
Estimated tickets remaining: 71,383
Estimated fraction sold: 0.7084
Game number: #1161

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.