PLINKO

How to Play Plinko

Plinko is a single-player carnival chip-drop game. Each round gives you 10 chips to drop through a brass peg board. Click or tap the top bar to set your aim reticle, then release to drop — the chip bounces left and right through 10 rows of pegs (12 on Pro) before landing in one of 9 scoring slots at the bottom. The centre slot is worth 1000 points; values taper to 100 at the edges. Avoid the edge slots — landing in one resets your multiplier to 1x — and aim for the columns that hold red star bonus pegs, which push your multiplier up to 5x on Easy and Normal.

The board follows the classic Galton-board shape made famous by television game shows and midway carnivals: each row holds one more peg than the row above it, so every bounce is a fresh left-or-right coin flip and no two drops trace quite the same path. Over ten chips the maths of the binomial distribution pulls most landings toward the middle slots, which is exactly why the multiplier system rewards streaks of non-edge landings — the skill lies in reading how the difficulty setting changes the chip size, the bounce randomness, and whether star pegs are on the board at all, then adjusting your aim a few pixels at a time rather than re-aiming wildly after every drop.

Strategy Tips

• Aim centre consistently — the peg randomness means your chip won't always reach centre, but aiming there maximises your probability of hitting the high-value slots.
• Protect your multiplier — an edge-slot land resets it to 1x. If you're at 4x or 5x, aim conservatively rather than risking an edge.
• Chase bonus star pegs — in Easy and Normal mode, landing in a non-edge slot whose column holds a red star peg adds +1 to your multiplier. Aim at those columns rather than trying to clip the pegs on the way down.
• Use keyboard on desktop — the left/right arrow keys give fine-grained 8px aim adjustments before you press Space to drop. More precise than click-and-release.
• Start with Easy to learn physics — the larger chip radius on Easy produces more predictable bounces. Once you understand the board layout, switch to Normal or Hard.