Is this plinko game played for real money?

No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.

Does a higher risk level cost more?

No. Low, medium and high all return 98.75% here, so a 10-chip drop costs 0.13 chips on average on every one of them. Risk changes how the return is spread. On high risk more of it sits in edge slots the ball rarely reaches, so most drops return less than the bet: 71.09% on 8 rows, 85.4% on 12 rows, 78.99% on 16 rows.

What are the chances of hitting the top multiplier?

Small, and they halve with every row added. The ball has to go the same way at every single peg. On high risk the top multiplier is 27× on 8 rows (1 in 128), 155× on 12 rows (1 in 2,048), 999× on 16 rows (1 in 32,768). A bigger number on the edge slot always comes with longer odds of reaching it, which is how every board ends up with the same return.

Can I control where the ball lands?

No. Each peg is an even chance of left or right, and the whole path is drawn at the moment the ball is released. Nothing about the timing of the drop or the previous results changes the next one. A run of center slots does not make an edge slot due.

Free Plinko

A peg board played with chips that are worth nothing, with the chance of every slot and the cost of every drop worked out beside it.

Play chips

1,000

No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.

Rows

Risk

Pick the rows, the risk and a bet, then drop a ball.

Session coach

Coach me as I play

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your drops the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

Decide the cost before you start

Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.

Next bet

10 chips at a 1.25% house edge: an expected cost of 0.1 chips.

This table is for practice and entertainment only. How to keep gambling safe

What this board pays

Return to player: 98.75%; The board keeps 1.25% at every risk level
Expected cost per drop: −0.13; On a 10 bet, on average
Returns less than the bet: 71.09%; 28.91% of drops return more
Top multiplier, 12×: 1 in 128; Pays 120 on this bet

8 rows · Medium risk · slots counted from the left
Slots	Pays	Chance
1 and 9	12×	1 in 128
2 and 8	3.1×	6.25%
3 and 7	1.3×	21.88%
4 and 6	0.7×	43.75%
5	0.4×	27.34%

Risk changes the spread of results, not the cost. Low, medium and high all return 98.75% on this board. What moves is where the return sits: on this setting 71.09% of drops return less than the bet. See what a wider spread does to a session

This session

Balls dropped: 0
Chips bet: 0
Net chips: 0
Expected at a 98.75% return: 0

The expected figure is 1.25% of the chips you have bet on finished drops. A short session can land far from it in either direction, and further on a higher risk level, because more of the return sits in slots the ball rarely reaches.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

Returned by all 9 boards, at every risk level: 98.75%
Kept by the board from every drop: 1.25%
Edge slot on 16 rows at high risk, reached 1 in 32,768: 999×
Drops on that board that return less than the bet: 78.99%

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A board that prints the odds of every slot

Plinko is a ball dropped through a triangle of pegs.

At every row it goes left or right with equal chance, and it lands in a slot at the bottom that pays a multiple of the bet. The slots in the middle are easy to reach and pay less than the bet. The slots at the edges pay many times the bet and are very hard to reach. There is nothing to decide once the ball is released, so this table teaches the choice made before it: how many rows, and which risk level.

8 rows, medium risk: where 256 paths end

12×: 1 of 256 paths
3.1×: 8 of 256 paths
1.3×: 28 of 256 paths
0.7×: 56 of 256 paths
0.4×: 70 of 256 paths
0.7×: 56 of 256 paths
1.3×: 28 of 256 paths
3.1×: 8 of 256 paths
12×: 1 of 256 paths

The center slot takes 27.34% of drops and pays 0.4×. Each edge slot pays 12× and is reached 1 in 256.

The risk level is the part most players misread.

All 9 boards here return exactly 98.75% of the chips bet on them, so high risk does not cost more than low risk, and it does not pay more either. What it changes is the spread. On 16 rows, high risk pays 999× at the edge, which comes up 1 in 32,768, and 78.99% of drops return less than the bet. Low risk on the same board tops out at 16.5×, and 19.64% of drops return less than the bet.

16 rows, three risk levels

Low risktop slot 16.5×
19.64% of drops return less than the bet. The board returns 98.75%.
Medium risktop slot 110×
54.55% of drops return less than the bet. The board returns 98.75%.
High risktop slot 999×
78.99% of drops return less than the bet. The board returns 98.75%.

Each bar is every drop on the board: less than the bet, exactly the bet, more than the bet.

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Rules at this table

8 rows
Slots
9
Paths
256
Edge slot, low risk
5.3×
Edge slot, medium risk
12×
Edge slot, high risk
27×
An edge slot is reached
1 in 128
The same at every risk level
12 rows
Slots
13
Paths
4,096
Edge slot, low risk
8.9×
Edge slot, medium risk
30×
Edge slot, high risk
155×
An edge slot is reached
1 in 2,048
The same at every risk level
16 rows
Slots
17
Paths
65,536
Edge slot, low risk
16.5×
Edge slot, medium risk
110×
Edge slot, high risk
999×
An edge slot is reached
1 in 32,768
The same at every risk level

Choose a board of 8, 12 or 16 rows of pegs, a risk level (low, medium or high) and a bet of 10, 20, 50 or 100 chips.
The ball meets one peg in every row and goes left or right of it with equal chance. A board with a given number of rows has one more slot than it has rows.
Every slot prints a multiplier. The drop returns the bet times the multiplier of the slot the ball lands in.
The multipliers are the same on both sides of the board, largest at the edges and smallest in the center. A higher risk level pays more at the edges and less in the center.
Every board at every risk level returns 98.75% of the chips bet on it. The board keeps 1.25%.
The path is drawn when the ball is released. The animation follows that path and cannot change where the ball lands.
Enter
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FAQ

Is this plinko game played for real money?: No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
Does a higher risk level cost more?: No. Low, medium and high all return 98.75% here, so a 10-chip drop costs 0.13 chips on average on every one of them. Risk changes how the return is spread. On high risk more of it sits in edge slots the ball rarely reaches, so most drops return less than the bet: 71.09% on 8 rows, 85.4% on 12 rows, 78.99% on 16 rows.
What are the chances of hitting the top multiplier?: Small, and they halve with every row added. The ball has to go the same way at every single peg. On high risk the top multiplier is 27× on 8 rows (1 in 128), 155× on 12 rows (1 in 2,048), 999× on 16 rows (1 in 32,768). A bigger number on the edge slot always comes with longer odds of reaching it, which is how every board ends up with the same return.
Can I control where the ball lands?: No. Each peg is an even chance of left or right, and the whole path is drawn at the moment the ball is released. Nothing about the timing of the drop or the previous results changes the next one. A run of center slots does not make an edge slot due.

How this game works

A drop is a path with one step per row, each step left or right with equal chance, drawn by your browser's random number generator. Every path is equally likely, and there are 256 on 8 rows, 4,096 on 12 rows, 65,536 on 16 rows. The slot is the number of steps the ball took to the right, so the number of paths into a slot is a binomial coefficient: one path into each edge slot, and the most into the center.

The 98.75% return is not an estimate. For each of the 9 boards, every path is walked, the multiplier of the slot it ends in is added up, and the total is divided by the number of paths. The pay tables were designed so that total comes to exactly the same share on every board, and an automated test checks it in whole numbers with no rounding. The house edge on the common casino bets puts the 1.25% the board keeps in context.

The chance a drop returns less than the bet is the share of paths that end in a slot printed below 1. It runs from 19.64% on the gentlest board (16 rows, low risk) to 85.4% on the harshest (12 rows, high risk). On 8 rows the top multiplier is 1 in 128 at any risk level, because it takes the same step at every peg to reach it.

The expected figure in the session panel is the share the board keeps multiplied by the chips you have bet on finished drops.

Limits

These are invented pay tables, designed for this page so that every board returns the same share. They are not a copy of any real game, and real games print different multipliers and many return less.
A real game's return can differ between risk levels and row counts. Here it is held equal on purpose, so that the only thing risk changes is the spread.
The ball's path is drawn by an ordinary browser random number generator. It is not an audited or certified generator, and nothing here should be read as a test of one.
Play chips do not feel like money. A long run of drops that return less than the bet is harder to sit through, and to stop after, with a real stake.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Plinko played with money keeps its share of every bet whatever rows or risk you pick, and no way of dropping the ball changes that. On these boards between 19.64% and 85.4% of drops return less than the bet, depending on the setting.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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