How Plinko Works

In its provable fairness pages, Stake writes specifically about how a Plinko result comes about. In short, the outcome depends on the path of the falling ball. The ball starts at the top, and at each level a game event decides the direction. Join all the directions together and the result is one complete path from top to bottom.

The player chooses the number of pins, and that number sets how many game events are needed to produce a full path. The range Stake allows is written in the card below, and this page does not repeat the figures in prose.

Note that this section describes how a result is produced; it is not a suggestion about how to play. Stake does not say that any setting is better, and neither does this site.

The Plinko game screen has a risk selector with several levels. Their names, as they appear on the screen, are in the card below.

In the Stake pages this site read, none describes what each level actually changes. So this page does not describe the differences between levels and does not infer them from the names. To learn what a level does, look at the information on the game screen itself or ask Stake's support. Nothing here ranks one level above another.

Many players want to know a game's theoretical return to player or its house edge. This site's fact base holds no such figure for Plinko, because no Stake text it could quote was found. For that reason this page neither states one nor works one out from another game. For that figure, rely on the game screen.

The rule on this site is that a figure without a source stays off the page. If you see a number elsewhere, check where it comes from before relying on it.

Stake's basic statement is that players have the ability to prove and verify that their results are fair and unmanipulated. In practice, a commitment scheme gives the player an influence on every result generated, and cryptographic hashing keeps the casino to that commitment. This is Stake's explanation. This site repeats it and has not verified anything itself.

Stake also says its Originals can be verified on its own page and through third-party websites that have published the verification procedure. Plinko is filed under the Originals label on its game page, so the mechanism applies to it. The scope is the Originals, not every game on Stake.

Provable fairness says that the process which produces a result can be checked. It does not predict any single round, and it does not change the fact that a game can lose you money.

If you are new, it is sensible to work through sign-up, verification and the deposit first and come back to the games afterwards. The getting-started page sets out the order and says which page covers each step; the deposit page has the deposit details, and the withdrawal page has the rule that a deposit has to be wagered before it can be withdrawn.

When you are ready, the button below goes to Stake. This site has not opened an account, so what the game screen actually looks like is whatever Stake shows you.

Any round can lose you money, and this site guarantees nothing. Use only money you are sure you can afford to lose. Stake describes two tools of its own, shown below: a loss limit and self-exclusion. This site does not judge whether the law where you live allows you to use Stake.

Beyond those tools, contact a gambling support service in the country where you live. English-speaking readers live in many countries, and this site has not verified a helpline that serves all of them, so it lists none here.