Are the top prizes in MONEY CASHWORD still available?

1 of 4 top prizes worth $25,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a MONEY CASHWORD ticket pay back?

You get back about 59¢ 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 · #1150

MONEY CASHWORD

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $25,000. A $3 ticket returns about 59¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 59¢ about 66¢ when the game launched

Top prize $25,000 1 of 4 still unclaimed

How far along 60% about 60% of tickets already sold · roughly 439,454 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.31 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$25,000	1	4
$500	3	10
$300	12	32
$50	733	2,199
$30	2,912	8,173
$20	4,651	13,581
$15	9,840	27,189
$10	5,756	16,346
$9	13,217	32,604
$5	14,044	38,059
$3	47,460	114,172

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5946 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6555 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.31
Estimated tickets printed: 1,087,710
Estimated tickets remaining: 439,454
Estimated fraction sold: 0.5960
Game number: #1150

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.