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 66¢ 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 66¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 66¢ 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 67,254 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	141	585
$50	619	2,668
$25	2,092	8,154
$20	998	4,074
$10	4,274	16,311
$5	6,931	24,468

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6563 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: 67,254
Estimated fraction sold: 0.7252
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.