Kansas Lottery has Banner Year

Not only is it the Kansas Lottery’s 20th anniversary, but lottery officials say that they have also hit a record number of sales. Officials say that total sales in the fiscal year that ended June 30th were up more than $240 million from the year before. That is more than a 2% increase over the previous year and has set a lottery record.

They say that they will be giving $71 million to the state which is the highest transfer ever in their 20 year history. Lottery officials think it has a lot to do with the games that they are offering this year. They have added more than 100 instant games, and they have been received well.

They also think that their $200,000 Celebration that people could buy for $20 a ticket did a lot to boost sales as well. They have two new versions of their $20 Electronic Game Card to add to that. They say that their online games brought in quite a bit on their side as well.

Hot Lotto and Kansas Hold’em were both offered starting this year, and both brought in a lot of money just by themselves. Their Veterans Benefit games did much to boost sales, they were $913,138 this year, up from $717,851 last year. The money from those games goes to Kansas Veterans’ programs and National Guard Scholarships.

In fact, the lottery thinks that they only thing that did not perform well this year was Powerball. Sales were down more than 27% from the previous year, and they say that without the large jackpots all of the states that offered it were hurt.

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