Skip to Main Content
Players Club
Winning Numbers

SOUTH DAKOTA LOTTERY  PROMOTION GUIDELINES

Hidden Gems

May 4, 2026 – January 12, 2027

The South Dakota Lottery’s Hidden Gems will be conducted on the Lottery’s website and mobile app. South Dakota Lottery Players Club members may enter their non-winning Hidden Gems tickets for a chance to win one of two grand prizes determined through two separate drawings.

These guidelines have been prepared to ensure that the integrity of the South Dakota Lottery is maintained at all times.

The Executive Director of the South Dakota Lottery reserves the right to change and supersede any outlined procedures to handle unforeseen circumstances.

 

Giveaway Date:

The Hidden Gems will take place May 4, 2026, through January 12, 2027. The promotion will consist of grand prize drawings on the following dates:

Drawings and Prizes:

  • September 21, 2026 -- 2-night stay in the Hilton Canopy in Sioux Falls, a $750 gift card to shop at downtown Sioux Falls businesses and a $200 gift card.
  • January 12, 2027 -- 2-night stay at the Shortgrass Resort in Spearfish.

Eligible Games

 Non-winning scratch tickets eligible for entry include:

  • Hidden Gems

GENERAL

  • To be eligible for the drawing, the entrant must be 18 years or older.
  • The entrant must be a member of the South Dakota Lottery’s Players Club.
  • To become eligible for the drawing, players can enter non-winning, eligible Hidden Gems instant tickets on the South Dakota Lottery’s Players Club website or mobile app.
  • The odds of an entrant being selected as a winner (the “Prizewinner”) will be determined by the number of entries submitted.
  • The Prizewinner of the drawing will be determined at a publicly held drawing at the Pierre Lottery office in accordance with SDCL Chapter 42-7A, Lottery administrative rules, and these guidelines.
  • The Prizewinner will have five (5) business days from the date they are notified of their win to submit their confirmation information to receive their prize; should that deadline not be met, the prize will revert to the next alternate.
  • Grand Prize Winners will be subject to the Lottery’s debt set-off process. If an obligation is to be fulfilled, the winner will have ten (10) business days to fulfill the obligation, or the prize will go to the next alternate.
  • Prizewinners agree to allowing their names and town being published to the Players Club website and the South Dakota Lottery’s social media pages.
  • In the event that the South Dakota Lottery is unable to conduct the drawing, due to technological issues or other like circumstances, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has been authorized to perform the drawing in a back-up capacity, utilizing the procedures and processes contained in these guidelines.
  • If any technical issues affect the results of the draw, the Lottery reserves the right to re-conduct the draw.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Entrants must be at least eighteen (18) years old to participate and win a prize.

Persons may enter up to 40 tickets per day on the Players Club webpage. Each ticket may only be entered once. An attempt to submit an entry that has already been submitted will generate an error message informing the player that the entry has already been submitted and may not be resubmitted.  The eligibility of the winning entry shall be determined by the Lottery after the drawing through a verification process. In the unlikely event of duplicate winning entries, the Lottery shall employ investigative measures to determine by activation, sell and entry date of ticket, and other verifiable means the validity of the entries to declare a single winning entry.

Participation shall be limited to persons whose eligible entries are received on the Players Club webpage by 11:59 p.m. CST the night before the posted drawing dates as shown on the Lottery website.

The South Dakota Lottery will not be responsible for data entry errors from the entrants. The risk of loss for the electronic misdelivery, late delivery or failure of receipt for ticket information entered electronically in the promotion remains with the entrant, regardless of the cause of transmission failure.

Entries are ineligible if:

  • The Lottery is unable to determine the owner of the entry.
  • Is received after the ending entry date.
  • Any ticket is shown to be of stolen status, unissued, counterfeit in whole or in part, mis-registered, defective, printed or produced in error, multiple printed, or fails any of the Lottery's confidential validation tests.
  • If the entry/account does not have a valid mailing address.
  • He or she was the grandprize winner of the previous Hidden Gems second chance drawing.

 

METHOD OF PROCESSING ENTRIES

  • All entries must be entered either on the Lottery’s Players Club website or South Dakota Lottery mobile app.
  • Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. central time on the night before the drawing.
  • Data collected in the course of the promotion is stored on secure servers within a guarded limited access hosting facility and access to data is protected by a variety of security products. The Director of Security for the South Dakota Lottery has been made aware of these security procedures and has deemed them acceptable for the purposes of this drawing.
  • Internet entries are processed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from the date and time the promotion begins until the final deadline of the final drawing for which entries are eligible to be submitted. Each entry record contains a date stamp to indicate when it was submitted by the entrant.
  • Each entry will be validated by Lottery Security, if selected.
  • All entries are retained in the entry database for the duration of the promotion, regardless of whether or not they are selected in the drawing, to ensure that any entry cannot be submitted more than one time during the course of the promotion.