SOUTH DAKOTA LOTTERY
DRAWING GUIDELINES
VIP Only
2nd Chance Drawing
January 2026 – March 2026
PURPOSE
The VIP Only second chance drawing is exclusively available to members of the South Dakota Lottery’s Players Club. The drawing is held on a quarterly basis, and most non-winning scratch tickets are eligible.
The second chance drawings will determine one top prize winner of $300 in scratch tickets, while five second prize winners will receive $100 in scratch tickets.
These drawing guidelines have been prepared to ensure the prizes awarded for the VIP Only 2nd Chance drawing are determined as impartially and randomly as possible and 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.
GENERAL
VIP Only is a second chance drawing in which South Dakota Lottery Players Club members can enter non-winning scratch tickets for a chance to win $300 in scratch tickets or $100 worth of scratch tickets. The current drawing will have one $300 scratch ticket winner and five $100 scratch ticket winners.
To be eligible for the drawing, the entrant must be a member of the Players Club.
To become eligible for the drawings, players must enter a non-winning scratch ticket from most scratch ticket game actively being sold between December 25, 2025 and March 25, 2026 that has not previously been entered for any other Lottery drawing by accessing the Players Club website at http://lottery.sd.gov/players/login/ or through the official SD Lottery app. Tickets that have their own second chance drawing are not eligible.
Each ticket will receive the number of entries equal to its price point, for example each $2 ticket will receive two entries and each $3 ticket will receive three entries. Entries will be accepted until the entry cutoff time of 11:59 p.m. CST the night before the posted drawing dates as shown on the Lottery website.
The winners of the VIP Only promotion 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 VIP Only Drawing Guidelines. The Executive Director shall have the discretion to alter the date, time and location of the Prize Drawing. The odds of an entrant being selected as a VIP Only Drawing winner will be determined by the number of entries submitted.
The VIP Only 2nd Chance draw will reset every quarter (3 months). This means that at the end of each quarter, all entries for the VIP Only 2nd Chance draw will be erased, and the entries will start over for the next quarter.
Six (6) Winners and ten (10) alternates will be randomly selected during the drawing. Winners will have five (5) days from the date they are notified of their win to submit their confirmation information to receive their prize. Should the winners not respond by the deadline, the prize will revert to the next alternate.
Should the security and integrity of the Players Club webpage be comprised by technological intrusion or other like actions, the promotion will be suspended until such time as said security has been reinstated and verified.
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.
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.
METHOD OF PROCESSING ENTRIES
All entries must be received through the Players Club website at http://lottery.sd.gov/players/login/ or the Official SD Lottery app. Once an entry has been successfully submitted into a 2nd Chance promotion, it is no longer eligible to be entered into any other 2nd Chance promotion.
Entries received via internet will be secured in a database maintained by BIT (Bureau of Information and Telecommunications) and Lottery personnel for the purpose of conducting the drawing or obtaining information necessary to assist drawing entrants. BIT provides a number of internal security measures to ensure that online entries are secure. 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 internet entry will be validated by Lottery Security, if selected.
All internet-generated 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.
Eligible Games
Non-winning scratch tickets eligible for entry include:
- Win Win Win
- Xtreme Crossword