Are the top prizes in VAULTS of CASH still available?

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

What does a VAULTS of CASH ticket pay back?

You get back about 55¢ 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 · $3 ticket · #1157

VAULTS of CASH

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $25,000. A $3 ticket returns about 55¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 55¢ about 58¢ when the game launched

Top prize $25,000 1 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 49% about 49% of tickets already sold · roughly 430,179 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.81 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$25,000	1	3
$2,000	3	6
$500	50	107
$100	95	203
$50	441	981
$30	2,385	4,943
$20	2,685	5,537
$15	7,135	14,768
$10	18,116	36,934
$5	18,723	36,896
$3	38,123	73,840

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5494 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.5830 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.81
Estimated tickets printed: 837,989
Estimated tickets remaining: 430,179
Estimated fraction sold: 0.4867
Game number: #1157

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.