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Plinko

Drop the ball, watch it bounce through 16 rows and land on a multiplier. Pick your risk — low keeps it steady, high chases up to ×900.

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How to play

How to play Plinko

Plinko is pure falling-ball theatre. You drop a ball from the top of a 16-row pyramid of pegs; at every peg it bounces left or right, and after sixteen of those little decisions it settles into one of the buckets along the bottom. Each bucket carries a multiplier that is applied to your bet. The middle buckets — where most balls naturally end up — pay the smallest multipliers, often below ×1. The outer buckets pay the big ones, but a ball only reaches them by bouncing the same direction again and again, which is rare. That bell-curve shape is the whole game.

Before each drop you choose a risk level. Low risk flattens the payout table: the centre pays closer to your stake and the edges are tame, so wins are frequent but small — low volatility. High risk does the opposite: the centre buckets pay almost nothing while the edges climb toward ×900, so you lose more often but the rare hits are huge. Every bounce is decided by a cryptographic random generator, the idea behind provably-fair play, and across all three risk levels the long-run RTP is the same — risk only reshapes the swings, never the math, because the house edge is baked into every table. You are dropping virtual points for fun, so enjoy it as a clean lesson in how variance feels.

Rules

  1. Set a bet between 10 and 100 points, then press Drop to release a ball from the top.
  2. Pick a risk — low, medium or high — to choose which multiplier table the buckets use.
  3. The ball bounces left or right at each of the 16 rows and lands in one bucket; you are paid bet × that bucket's multiplier.
  4. Centre buckets pay the least (often under ×1); the further out the ball lands, the bigger the payout, up to ×900 on high risk.
  5. You can drop several balls at once; risk is locked while any ball is still falling so the board matches the live table.
  6. Wins are capped at +500 points per drop and per day — a long-edge hit may have its payout trimmed to that ceiling.
  7. Each drop is independent. The peg path has no memory, so a run of low buckets never makes an edge hit "due" — that is just variance.

Tips from Jérôme

  • Match the risk to the mood you want. Low risk = lots of near-stake wins and a slow, steady session; high risk = mostly small losses chasing one big edge bucket. Same RTP, very different ride.
  • Remember the bell curve: most balls land near the middle, so the headline ×900 is genuinely rare. Treat it as a jackpot, not an expectation.
  • On high risk, those sub-×1 centre buckets mean a "win" can still pay back less than your stake — watch the readout after each drop.
  • The per-drop cap limits the very top buckets, so on high risk smaller bets let an edge hit pay out fully rather than getting trimmed by the max cashout.
  • It is virtual points and just for fun — pick a number of drops, watch the swings, and stop when you said you would.
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