Are the top prizes in MERRY BRIGHT still available?

1 of 3 top prizes worth $10,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a MERRY BRIGHT ticket pay back?

You get back about 54¢ 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 · #1172

MERRY BRIGHT

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $10,000. A $5 ticket returns about 54¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 54¢ about 69¢ when the game launched

Top prize $10,000 1 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 86% about 86% of tickets already sold · roughly 25,840 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.11 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$10,000	1	3
$500	1	16
$100	13	332
$50	202	2,980
$20	657	6,084
$15	546	6,104
$10	1,333	10,617
$5	2,756	18,252

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5444 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6916 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.11
Estimated tickets printed: 182,435
Estimated tickets remaining: 25,840
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8584
Game number: #1172

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.