Plinko by BGaming

How to play Plinko comes down to one decision made before anything moves: the size of the stake. Every figure in the Plinko paytable is a multiple of it, so changing the stake rescales the whole table at once.

There is nothing to line up in Plinko: a round is one drop, and the pay is whatever the ball comes to rest on. Each value is fixed and visible before the drop, so the outcome is read off the board itself rather than from a table.

Everything above is stated in full inside Plinko itself — the paytable button opens the list of symbols and the rules for Risk levels. The numbers there are quoted against the stake you currently have set, which makes them easier to read than any review.

Plinko has no reels and nothing spins. A token is released at the top of a pegged board, bounces its way down, and lands in one of the slots along the bottom — the slot it lands in is the payout. The multipliers sit in the slots, not in a paytable read left to right: the ones at the far edges are the largest and the hardest to reach, and the middle is where most drops end up.

That makes Plinko the odd one out in our lobby, and worth opening for that reason: it is the only game here where the result is a path rather than a spin.

Plinko carries two features, and they are where the game earns its place in the lobby rather than on the base grid.

Risk levels — three risk levels: the higher you set it, the rarer the hits and the larger the multipliers at the edges. On Plinko this is the difference between a flat session and one you remember, so it is worth knowing what Risk levels looks like before it arrives.

8 to 16 rows (the number of peg rows is the player's own choice, from eight to sixteen). In a player-set-volatility game like Plinko that matters more than it sounds: 8 to 16 rows is the round the quoted ceiling is calculated from.

None of these fire on demand, and that is the point: Risk levels is worth having a balance left for, and the rest of Plinko is the wait.

On Plinko the stake is what one drop costs, set before you release the token. Every multiplier on the board is quoted against it, so raising the stake raises the whole board at once and changes nothing about where the token is likely to land. Plinko has no lines and no line bet: you set the cost of a drop, and the slot the token lands in multiplies exactly that. Note that 1,000× the total bet is a multiplier, not a rand figure. It holds at every stake, which is what makes Plinko comparable with the games either side of it in the lobby.

Treat Plinko as a player-set-volatility game — it changes character with the mode you select, which is the point of it rather than a footnote. The number that counts is the one in the slot, and it is on screen the whole time.

Raising the stake after a run of near misses does nothing on Plinko — one drop knows nothing about the one before it. Autoplay handles the base grid of Plinko perfectly well. Set it to stop on Risk levels and you get the pace without losing the event.

Because you choose the risk mode on Plinko, size the balance for the mode you actually intend to play — the safe setting and the extreme one want very different bankrolls. Decide the stop point before you open Plinko: our deposit and session limits sit in the account area and apply the moment you set them.

If you are clearing a bonus on Plinko, check the contribution rate first — it is set out game by game on our bonus page. What to watch in Plinko is Risk levels: how often it arrives sets the pace of a session more than any other number.

Resist the urge to raise the stake because Risk levels has not landed for a while: on Plinko it is no closer than it was, and the wait has just become more expensive. If Plinko stops being comfortable, the responsible gaming page lists the limits, the cooling-off options and the outside organisations we work with.

Plinko suits a player who wants a game where you set the risk yourself instead of accepting the one it ships with. If it lands well, Plinko Beyond is the next one to try — same theme, different rhythm.

Plinko and Plinko Beyond sit next to each other in the lobby, and the difference is in the pace, not the paytable. Start with Plinko if you would rather choose the risk than be handed it. Full specifications for Plinko — the board layout, volatility, the top end (1,000× the total bet), the feature list and the release year — are in the table at the top of this page.

Plinko Beyond