Remember the giant pegboard on The Price Is Right? Somebody at Onlyplay clearly does. Their take on it came out on 27 November 2025, and instead of a ball, there’s a slightly smug cartoon hen laying eggs onto the board. Silly idea, sure. It works better than you’d expect, though.
For anyone playing from New Zealand, the timing’s a bit funny, because the game turned up right as the country was finally writing proper rules for online casinos. So this piece covers two things. First, the game, then what’s changed legally, since that affects how Kiwis will be playing it from here on.
What you’re actually looking at
Lobbies stick it under slots. It isn’t one, really. No reels, no paylines, nothing to line up. Chicken Plinko is an instant-win drop game: the hen perches at the top of an 8-row board, lets an egg go, and the egg rattles down through the pegs into one of the baskets along the bottom. Each basket has a multiplier on it and that’s your payout.
The look is farmyard with tinsel on top (it launched just before Christmas, which explains the tinsel).
Quick specs
| Spec | Value |
| Developer | Onlyplay |
| Out since | 27 November 2025 |
| RTP | 96.14% |
| Volatility | medium |
| Hit frequency | 77.27% |
| Top win | 1,000x the stake |
| Board | 8 rows, can’t be changed |
| Bets | about 0.50 up to 50 a drop, depending on currency |
| Devices | desktop plus iOS and Android browsers |
One round, start to finish
Pick a stake. Drop the egg (or put it on autoplay if clicking gets old). It bounces around, maybe clips one of the purple bumpers on the way, and a couple of seconds later it’s in a basket and you’ve been paid. That’s it.
Except for one twist. Sometimes the egg cracks halfway down, and that drop just loses. Old-school Plinko never does this to you, and it’s a big part of why the RTP here is 96.14% and not the 99% you’ll see on some of the plainer Plinko games.
The bits that make it more than a pegboard
Honestly, a bare Plinko board gets boring after twenty drops or so. Onlyplay seems to know that, because they’ve bolted on four extras.
Bumpers
The purple targets. Hit one and it might give you a modifier, or kick you into one of the bonus rounds below. Everything else hangs off these.
Wheel of Fortune
A spinning prize wheel. Some slices pay a multiplier on the spot, others send you into a different feature.
Free Eggs
Free spins, basically, just with eggs. You get a handful of drops that don’t touch your balance.
Jackpot Game
This is where the 1,000x cap lives, and the maths behind it is refreshingly simple. A basket reveals a base multiplier (anything from x5 to x100). Then the hen adds her own on top, from x2 to x10. Multiply the two, apply it to the bet that triggered the round, done. Best case is x100 times x10, which is exactly 1,000x. It’s rare for a game to show you so plainly where its max win comes from, and I appreciate it.
Some markets also get a buy option that jumps straight into a feature, priced per feature. Where it isn’t available, the features only trigger naturally from the board.
Careful with the numbers
People quote three stats for this game. All three are a bit slippery.
96.14% RTP is an average across millions and millions of drops. You won’t play millions of drops tonight. Over a short session you could finish well up or well down and neither would mean the number’s wrong.
Then there’s the 77% hit rate. Sounds lovely. Roughly three drops in four pay something, true, but loads of those payouts are less than you bet. Land a 0.5x basket and the game counts that as a win while you’ve quietly lost half your stake. Lots of little “wins” and not much money, in other words.
Put those together and you get the medium volatility: your balance mostly shuffles along in small steps, and the big jumps are saved for the bonus features.
Strong points and honest limits
What works:
• Hardly any dead drops, thanks to that hit rate
• More going on than pretty much any other Plinko title, with four separate features
• You can see exactly how the 1,000x is built
• Plays nicely on a phone and rounds are quick
• Stakes suit casual players fine
What to keep in mind:
• 1,000x isn’t much of a ceiling if you’re used to high-volatility slots
• Cracked eggs. Just an extra way to lose, really
• The board’s stuck at 8 rows, so there’s no risk slider to play with like some rivals have
• RTP is middle of the pack for the genre
Where it lives at LevelUp
The game sits in the instant-games shelf of the LevelUp catalogue for New Zealand players, demo mode included, so you can watch a few dozen eggs fall before any real money is involved. The chicken plinko slot has its own page in the NZ section of the casino’s catalogue, and the rules panel on that page shows the exact RTP version and the bet limits in your currency, worth a glance because Onlyplay ships slightly different configurations to different markets.
Meanwhile, back in New Zealand
This year NZ online gambling finally got a rulebook.
The Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 got Royal Assent on 27 April and kicked in on 1 May. Before that, Kiwis mostly played on offshore sites with no local oversight whatsoever. Here’s what’s changing:
• The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) runs the show.
• Only 15 operator permits, max. Expressions of interest closed on 14 August and the auction is set for September.
• Offshore operators already here can carry on until 1 December 2026. After that it’s approved operators only (plus applicants still waiting on a decision, for a little while).
• Approved sites have to let you set your own deposit limits, offer self-exclusion, stick to advertising rules and stop accepting credit cards.
The DIA said it wanted operators to have time with “these finalised regulations” before the market opens. A fully regulated market should be up and running by early 2027. For players the practical part is simple: from December onward, check that the site you play on appears on the DIA’s published list.
So, is it any good?
Yeah, it’s a solid little game. It won’t hand you giant multipliers. What you get is a steady drip of small returns and a bonus system with a clear 1,000x at the top. Go in thinking of it as entertainment that costs a known amount over time, not a side income, and you’ll probably enjoy it.
Set a deposit limit before your first egg drops. And if it stops being fun, Gambling Helpline NZ is free and confidential on 0800 654 655.
