BGaming Plinko Review: Every Payout, Chance and Free Demo

BGaming Plinko payout table: every row and risk setting

A win is the stake times the multiplier of the pocket: a 1.00 stake that lands in a 26× pocket returns 26.00, one that lands in 0.2× returns 0.20. The edges pay the most and the centre the least, and risk decides how far apart they sit. On 16 rows, High runs from 1,000× at the edges to 0.2× across the five middle pockets, while Low on the same board runs from 16× to a single 0.5× pocket in the centre.

Pick rows and risk below to bring up any of the 27 tables. The share of balls that lands in each pocket is printed under it, and the stake and session fields turn the table into an average return and the share of sessions that end ahead.

The 16-row board on all three risk levels, one pair of pockets per line from the edges inward, with how often a ball lands there:

Reading the table

The board is symmetric. Pocket 1 and pocket 17 pay the same and come up equally often, so “either of the pair” doubles the chance of a multiplier without changing its value. The chances need only one set of columns because risk does not touch them: switching from Low to High rewrites every multiplier and leaves every chance where it was.

One figure sums up 16 rows High: 79.0% of balls end in a 0.2× pocket. How often the bigger pockets turn up is in the odds section, and how other Plinko games price their boards is on the Plinko RTP page.

BGaming Plinko RTP by setting: why 99% is a rounded figure

BGaming’s game page gives Plinko a 99% return. The demo client carries one figure per setting, 27 in all, from 98.91% on 8 rows Normal and 10 rows Normal to 99.16% on 11 rows High. The rules screen puts it in words:

The rules screen gives the return as a range that depends on the setting the player picks.

Every setting, from the lowest return to the highest:

Each figure is the sum of multiplier times chance over all pockets. On 8 rows Low there are 256 paths, and counting paths times multiplier for each pair of pockets, edge to centre, gives 2 × 1 × 5.6 + 2 × 8 × 2.1 + 2 × 28 × 1.1 + 2 × 56 × 1 + 70 × 0.5 = 253.4; divided by 256, that is 98.98%, the figure the client reports for that setting.

In money the gap is small: 100 balls at a stake of 1.00 cost 1.09 on average at the bottom of the range and 0.84 at the top, a difference of 0.25 of a stake per hundred balls. Picking a setting for its RTP saves next to nothing; how BGaming Plinko’s return compares with other studios is on the RTP and odds page.

How to play BGaming Plinko, step by step

The client opens with 1,000 FUN on the balance and a stake of 1.00 FUN. Every control sits around the board: risk to the left of Play, bet mode to the right, Min, −, + and Max under it, and the row selector, labelled Lines, down the right-hand edge.

1. Open the demo

   Press Play the free demo at the top of this page. BGaming’s client loads in place with 1,000 FUN, play credits that stay in the demo.

2. Set the stake

   Use − and + to step, or Min and Max to jump to either end. In the demo the stake runs from 1 to 100 FUN; at the floor Min and − grey out, at the ceiling + and Max do.

   

3. Choose the risk level

   Low, Normal or High in the panel to the left of Play. The multipliers printed on the pockets are always those of the level you have picked.

4. Pick the number of rows

   The Lines column on the right runs from 8 to 16. Each step adds a row of pegs and one more pocket at the bottom.

   

5. Press Play

   One ball drops and the betting controls lock until it lands, all except Bet Mode. Depending on the licence the casino operates under, Play either stays live, so a second ball with the same settings can go in mid-round, or stays inactive until the first round is settled.

6. Read the result

   The pocket’s multiplier times the stake goes to the balance, and on a wide screen the round is logged in the record table to the left of the board: Time, Bet, Payout and Profit.

Manual and Auto

Manual drops one ball per press of Play. Auto adds a field for the number of bets; press Play and the button turns into Stop with a count of the balls left. A run ends when the count reaches zero, when you press Stop, or when the balance can no longer cover the stake. Like the second ball mid-round, Auto can be switched off by the casino’s licence, so some casinos offer Manual only. Two lines of the rules cover every round: “Malfunction voids all plays and pays”, and all unfinished rounds are terminated every 24 hours.

Bet size and currency

The demo plays in FUN, from 1 to 100 per ball. At a casino the minimum and maximum stake and the currency are set by that casino, so one casino’s limits say nothing about the next. The arithmetic is the same everywhere: the demo’s top stake of 100 FUN in a 1,000× pocket makes 100,000 FUN.

Mobile

On a phone held upright the client switches to a portrait layout: the board on top, the Lines column down its right side, and risk, Play, bet mode and the stake buttons underneath, as in the two portrait frames above.

The ball, the pegs and what a pocket means are the same in every Plinko game, and the Plinko basics page starts from there.

Is BGaming Plinko provably fair?

Yes. BGaming runs Plinko on its provably fair system, with a server seed and a client seed behind every round. The scheme lets you prove that a result was fixed before you bet and not changed after it, in four steps:

1. The result comes first

   The server calculates the round’s Result before your bet and pairs it with a one-off Secret.

2. You get the Hash before the drop

   The Hash is SHA-256 of the Result plus the Secret. The demo client already holds a 64-character hash before the first ball.

3. You set the Client seed

   Keep the random Client seed or type your own before the round.

4. You check after the round

   Once the ball lands you receive the Result, the Secret and the Final Result. Hash the first two with SHA-256: a match with the Hash you were shown means the result was set before your bet.

What the check proves is narrow: the round you played was the round fixed in advance. It leaves the paytable, the odds of the next ball and the return exactly as they were. BGaming’s games are supplied by Stable Games Ltd of Valletta under Malta Gaming Authority B2B Critical Gaming Supply licence MGA/B2B/785/2020, issued on 18 March 2021.

The hash check, step by step, is on the provably fair Plinko page, and the wider question of which Plinko sites to trust is answered on Is Plinko legit.

Other versions of BGaming Plinko: Plinko XY and Easter Plinko

BGaming followed the original with Plinko XY on 24 Mar 2022 and Easter Plinko on 16 Mar 2023, both retaining its 27 settings. Their payouts and pocket chances match the tables above, with the same 98.91–99.16% RTP range; the differences are in theme and positioning.

Plinko XY: same payouts, built for crypto projects

BGaming positions Plinko XY as built for crypto projects, with the original’s payouts and golden balls on the board. Plinko XY runs on a certified RNG.

Payout chances are the same at matching settings, so the original’s odds tables apply to XY too.

Easter Plinko: the same board in an Easter theme

Easter Plinko replaces the balls with eggs and the pegs with grass, keeping the original’s payouts and pocket chances. BGaming lists a record table, mobile optimisation and a certified RNG.

Choose Easter for its eggs and grass without changing the payout pattern: the same paytable governs each matching row and risk setting.

With no mathematical difference between these versions and the original, choose by theme and what your casino’s lobby carries. The casino list groups options by country, while the Plinko RTP comparison explains the mathematical differences across other boards.