The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery generated $578.0 million in sales during fiscal 2025, down 6% from the previous year. It said the period produced $111.3 million for scholarships, its third-highest annual contribution, and brought lifetime scholarship proceeds above $1.5 billion.
The results show how lower sales coincided with scholarship funding and prize payments in Arkansas.
The day’s most important stories, free. One email a day.
The Montana Lottery suspended Montana Millionaire ticket sales on 1 November after 2,010 of 12,919 tickets sold were instant winners, lottery director Bob Brown said. The lottery said it would honour $608,600 in prizes and replenish the prize pool, with Bally’s Intralot absorbing the additional cost; officials had not announced a reopening date by 3 November.
Rhode Island Lottery sales fell 15% year on year to $24.5 million in September, reportedly.
Rhode Island Lottery sales fell 15% year on year to $24.5m in September.
Illinois Lottery sales reportedly reached $326.8 million in July, up 3% and exceeding $325 million for the first time since March.
The Illinois Lottery reported sales of $1.88 billion in the first half of 2026, reportedly 2% higher than a year earlier.
The Rhode Island Lottery recorded a 6% year-on-year rise in sales in June, reaching $25.4 million, according to a report.