The immensely popular lottery will distribute a total of 2.6 billion euros in prizes this year, much of it in small winnings. Street and bar celebrations normally break out, with winners uncorking bottles of sparkling wine and singing and dancing. The event is televised nationally from Madrid's Teatro Real opera house.

“In response to the many requests from Lottery players in the eastern panhandle of the state, we are excited with this news,” Lottery Director John Myers said. “We want to thank Penn Entertainment for their willingness to partner with us to better serve our traditional Lottery players in those counties by providing them with a place they can cash winning tickets up to $5,000.”

"Thank you to Iowa Lottery players, retail partners, and the Lottery's hard-working team, who all contributed to producing a record year of sales and proceeds for the good causes in Iowa that rely on lottery sales," said Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn.

“We have achieved the results we anticipated for the first six months of fiscal 2023–2024, despite an economic climate that is putting pressure on Quebecers’ pocketbooks. We’re maintaining the focus on our objectives,” said PRESIDENT AND CEO, Jean-François Bergeron.  "We believe it’s important to keep modernizing our offerings in a responsible manner, as always.” “We also unveiled our 2023–2028 Corporate Social Responsibility Plan. It demonstrates our commitment to balancing the commercial and social aspects of our mission to make a positive contribution to the community.”

What an amazing week at NASPL 2023 in Milwaukee. Thank you to all the North American Association of State & Provincial Lotteries members for a wonderful year as I served as association president. I am also deeply honored and humbled to be inducted into the PGRI Lottery Industry Hall of Fame. 
Thank you to our colleagues from around the world for joining me during the International Panel discussion.
As I pass the gavel on to Cindy Polzin, the Director of the Wisconsin Lottery, I know that NASPL will be in great hands!!
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The NY Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable lottery program, earning more than $82.38 billion in education support statewide since its founding more than 50 years ago. In the fiscal year 2022-2023, the Lottery’s traditional games contributed $2.67 billion to support education in New York State.  Read the RFI here

“The project shows what volunteering is all about: only together can we make a difference. And we can all do something together to support volunteer work,” says Andreas Kötter, Managing Director, WestLotto.

Ultimately, looking at the effects of our efforts, we can all proudly say that we have taken Poles' beloved games to a new level, and all this has always been done with the benefit for society in mind, which we generate as a leader in the real-money games market, according to our slogan: We Win Together - said Olgierd Cieślik, President of the Management Board of Totalizator Sportowy .

Michael Barth, Managing Director for Bremer Toto-Lotto GmbH, said, “Moving to more advanced lottery terminals across the LOTTO Bremen network brings us another step closer to modernizing the lottery experience with Scientific Games, our longtime technology provider. We are confident that this is a very positive move that will be well-received by our retailers and players.”