Studios and house boards
Plinko game providers and what each studio prints about its board
The same word, Plinko, sits on tiles built by different studios and by casinos themselves. Below: the figures every studio publishes about its board, and the ranked lobbies that name each maker.
Plinko game providers are the studios that build a Plinko board and license it to casinos, and their versions sit next to boards that casinos make for themselves. Two tiles with the identical name can hide different paytables, different row ranges and different return figures, so the maker is the first thing worth reading on a tile. The studio sheets further down were taken from the makers' pages on 16 September 2026, followed by a list of which ranked lobby names which studio.
A dash below means the studio's page prints nothing on that point. Nothing is estimated or borrowed to fill it.
| Studio | Game | RTP | Risk levels | Rows | Top multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spribe studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko | 97% | — | — | — |
| BGaming studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko | 99% | high, normal, low | 8–16 lines | 1000× |
| Hacksaw Gaming studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko | 98.98%; 98.28%; 97.27%; 96.02%; 94.30%; 92.03%; 88.20% | low, medium, high | 8–16 rows | 3,843.3× |
| SmartSoft Gaming studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko X Classic | — | — | — | — |
| SmartSoft Gaming studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko X | — | — | — | — |
| Gamzix studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko Max | — | — | — | — |
| TaDa Gaming studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko | — | — | — | — |
| JetGames studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Plinko | — | — | — | — |
| Clawbuster studio page, 16 Sep 2026 | Fruit Paradise Plinko | — | — | — | — |
Plinko game providers and house versions: two kinds of tile
A studio version is made by an outside developer. The lobby shows the studio's name beside the title, and the studio publishes a game page with whatever figures it chooses to print. The same studio title can appear in many casinos.
A house version is what a lobby shows without an outside studio: the casino's own board, often grouped under a label such as Originals or Exclusive games. Its figures, if any, come from the casino, and a house board in one casino has nothing to do with a house board in another, even when both are simply called Plinko. Which casinos run a house board versus a studio title, among others, is the kind of detail gathered on the plinko gambling sites page.
Neither kind is better by default. The difference is where you look for the numbers: a studio page for studio versions, the casino's own game page or rules for house versions.
The studio sheets, one maker at a time
Spribe
Spribe's page for Plinko prints a return to player of 97%. It names no risk levels, no row range and no top multiplier, so those stay as dashes. When the same title sits in a lobby, the casino's own page may print a different return figure; Bitcasino.io's Spribe page does, which is a reminder to read the figure where you play.
BGaming
BGaming prints the most complete sheet of the group:
- Return to player: 99%.
- Risk levels: high, normal and low, which change the values in the cells.
- Rows: a choice of 8 to 16 lines.
- Top multiplier: 1,000×.
- Release date: 28 January 2019.
The page does not say which bin or which risk level carries the 1,000× value.
Hacksaw Gaming
Hacksaw Gaming prints its return as a list of seven versions rather than one figure: 98.98%, 98.28%, 97.27%, 96.02%, 94.30%, 92.03% and 88.20%. Risk levels are low, medium and high, rows run from 8 to 16, and the maximum win is 3,843.3×. No release date is printed.
A list of versions means a casino chooses which one it runs. The version a lobby uses is not visible from the studio page, so the game's own information panel is the place to look.
SmartSoft Gaming
SmartSoft's pages for Plinko X Classic and Plinko X print no return figure, no risk-level names, no row range and no top multiplier. Blockbet's page for Plinko X Classic prints a 97.00% return, but that is the operator's figure, not the studio's.
TaDa Gaming, Gamzix, JetGames, Clawbuster
For these studios the sheet is all dashes: return —, risk levels —, rows —, top multiplier —. Of the four, only TaDa Gaming is credited in a ranked lobby.
The comparison chart above sets the studio sheets side by side, so the gaps are as visible as the figures. How a paytable turns those settings into payouts is explained on the page about risk levels.
Which ranked lobbies credit which studio
Lobbies were read on 16 September 2026, and the studio name is given as the lobby printed it, lightly normalised.
- Spribe: Bitcasino.io, Winz.io, Metaspins.
- BGaming: Sportsbet.io, Winz.io, TG.Casino, Bitsler.
- Hacksaw Gaming: Shuffle.com, Bitsler.
- SmartSoft Gaming: Blockbet, with Plinko X Classic.
- TaDa Gaming: Hyper Lucky.
Counting the other way round, BGaming appears in four ranked lobbies, Spribe in three, Hacksaw Gaming in two, SmartSoft Gaming and TaDa Gaming in one each. Bitsler and Winz.io carry three Plinko tiles apiece, the most of any ranked casino. The post on the shape of the list looks at that spread in more detail.
House versions in the ranked lobbies
Eleven of the twelve numbered casinos show a house board as well as, or instead of, a studio title:
- Bitcasino.io: a PLINKO tile credited to Bitcasino itself, in its Originals row.
- Rocketpot: Plinko under Exclusive games, with no studio named.
- Sportsbet.io: a PLINKO tile credited to Sportsbet.io.
- Winz.io: a tile called PlinkoX with no studio printed beside it.
- Blockbet: a Plinko tile among its own originals.
- Metaspins: Plinko labelled ORIGINALS.
- Rainbet: Plinko among Rainbet Originals.
- Shuffle.com: its own Plinko next to the Hacksaw Gaming title.
- TG.Casino: a PLINKO tile with no studio printed.
- Winna: Plinko under Winna Originals.
- Bitsler: Plinko credited to Bitsler, whose page describes 8 to 16 rows and risk levels from low to high.
Hyper Lucky is the exception: its lobby shows only the TaDa Gaming title. Rocketpot, Rainbet and Winna show only a house board. Where a house board prints its own rules, those rules are the source for its rows, risk levels and paytable; the checks in the seed-verification walk-through apply to whatever fairness method that casino describes.
Why two tiles with one name can pay differently
The ball behaves the same on every board: at each peg it goes left or right, and the count of routes into each bin follows from the number of rows. What differs between makers is the paytable printed under the bins and the choices a player is given.
Take a made-up pair of 12-row boards. On the first, a hypothetical low setting pays 0.5× in the centre bin and 8× at each edge; on the second, a hypothetical high setting pays 0.2× in the centre and 150× at each edge. The centre bin still collects 924 of the 4,096 routes on both, about 22.6%, and each edge still collects 1 route, about 0.024%. Same drop, very different evenings.
That is why a studio name matters more than a tile picture. It tells you which sheet to read, and whether a row range, a set of risk levels and a top value are printed at all.
Reading plinko game providers on a tile before you drop
- Look for the studio name on the tile or the game page. No name usually means a house version.
- For a studio title, open the studio's own page and note what it prints, including what it leaves blank.
- Open the in-game information panel and check which return figure and which paytable the casino runs.
- Compare the risk levels and row range offered with what the studio lists.
- Treat a top multiplier as a paytable entry that the edge bins rarely reach, as the page about edge and centre values shows with the arithmetic.
Reading plinko game providers this way takes a minute and removes the guesswork from two tiles that look identical.