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Lottery Guide is brought to you with the compliments of
New York State Lottery |
Address: |
1 Broadway Center P.O. Box 7500
Schenectady, New York 12301-7500 |
Internet: |
http://www.nylottery.org |
E-mail Address: |
N/A |
Phone: |
(518) 388-3300 |
Fax: |
(518) 388-3403 |
Population: |
19,541,453 U.S. Census Bureau,
Population Division |
Interim Lottery Director: |
Gwen Dean |
Year Lottery Founded: |
June 1967 |
Gross Sales FY
2015: Gross Sales FY 2016: |
$9,156,336,000 $9,690,511,057 |
Sales Per Capita: |
$374 |
Number of Employees: |
330 |
Retailers : |
17,588 |
On-line Vendor: |
GTECH |
Instant Ticket Vendor: |
Scientific Games |
Secondary Instant Ticket Vendor: |
GTECH Printing Corporation Pollard
Banknote |
Video Lottery Contract: |
IGT |
Advertising: |
DDB Worldwide Communications Group |
ITVMs |
On-Point Interlott |
Games Offered: |
Mega Millions, Powerball, Sweet Millions,
Lotto, Take Five, Numbers, Win 4, Quick Draw, Pick 10, Instants. |
Proceeds: |
Education (NYS Public Schools) |
Jurisdiction: |
New York |
New York voters approved a state lottery in November
1966, and on June 17, 1967, the New York Lottery held the first drawing for its
new passive game. It became the second U.S. lottery in the modern era, after
New Hampshire. In the first year of operation, sales were $53.6 million.
The Lotterys first instant game, Scenes of New York, was introduced
in September 1976. Another instant game, Empire Stakes, launched in January
1977, setting a new record for a lottery instant game to that point, producing
$18.9 million in sales during its first week. New Yorks first numbers
game was Lotto, initially run as an offline game at its launch in 1978. It was
the first successful Lotto game in the United States, and a version of the
original game is still in the product mix today. The computerized era began
in 1980, first with Lotto and then with the introduction of the daily Numbers
game in September; Win 4 followed a year later. The Lottery launched Quick
Draw, a keno game, in 1995. Its first foray into the multistate arena was with
Mega Millions, introduced in 2002. Those five games are still part of the
Lotterys lineup of draw games, which also includes Powerball, Take 5,
Sweet Million and Pick 10. The New York Lottery has led the country in
terms of total sales since 1996, far outpacing any other lottery with its
traditional sales program. Added to the mix were video lottery terminals,
authorized in 2001 and implemented beginning in January 2004. The machines are
now available at all nine racetracks included in the original legislation, and
not surprisingly the New York program now brings in more gross gaming revenue
than any other lotterys video gaming system. Fundamentally, the
Lottery is run as an entertainment business and its sole mission is to earn
revenue for education. In fiscal 2012, Lottery revenues accounted for nearly 15
percent of total state education funding to local school districts. Lottery
revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula
used to distribute other state aid to education.
News
Archive for CY2017 |
October 4, 2017 |
Panel Rules City Workers
Cant Join Office Lottery Pool with Bosses |
October 4, 2017 |
New York Lottery Wins
Back-to-Back Industry Awards for Creative Advertising Campaigns & Player
Outreach |
August 23, 2017 |
Billions of Dollars Go
Unclaimed in Lottery Prizes Each Year |
June 16, 2017 |
Current State of New York
Gambling |
June 16, 2017 |
50 Years & More Than
$150 Billion: The New York Lottery Celebrates 50th Anniversary |
June 9, 2017 |
New York Lottery Scammers
Charged with Criminal Tax Fraud |
May 19, 2017 |
Lottery Money A Subject of
Debate in Albany |
May 19, 2017 |
New York Lottery Celebrating
50th Anniversary with Live Drawing on Empire State Plaza |
April 25, 2017 |
Mega Millions Ticket
Prices to Double, Odds of Winning Jackpot Drop Under Proposed
Changes |
March 30, 2017 |
New York Lottery Announce
New Sports-Based Phone Game |
February 23, 2017 |
NY Governor Looks to
Review Charitable Gaming Legislation |
January 25, 2017 |
New York Lottery
Achieves Record Revenue in 2016 |
January 20, 2017 |
New York Governor
Proposes Plan to Crack Down on the Illegal Use of Public Assistance Benefits to
Purchase Lottery Tickets |
News
Archive for CY2016 |
October 20, 2016 |
New York Lottery Wins
Industry Awards for Creative Advertising Campaigns & Player
Outreach |
August 3, 2016 |
New York Governor Signs
Bill Legalizing Fantasy Sports Into Law |
July 26, 2016 |
NYS Gaming Commission
Meets, Approves Gaming Rules on Standards for Testing and Certifying Video
Lottery Gaming Equipment, Tours Rivers Casino Site |
July 19, 2016 |
New York Lottery Joins AR
Gaming Craze with New 3-D Scratch-Off |
July 19, 2016 |
New York Lottery Cashes in
on Record High Sales |
July 5, 2016 |
New York Lottery Enters New
Dimension with First-Of-Its-Kind 3D Scratch-Off Game |
June 22, 2016 |
New York Hits Lotto
Jackpot |
April 29, 2016 |
Jackpocket App Launch the
First Way to Play New York Lottery Daily Games on Your Phone |
April 22, 2016 |
New York Lottery &
Video Gaming Smash Records with $9.69 Billion in Sales/Net Win |
January 2, 2016 |
New York is Poised to
Diversify Its Gambling Revenue Streams Yet Again |

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