Costa Rica’s Junta de Protección Social (JPS) and the Municipality of Cartago inspected businesses selling unauthorised lottery products and issued notices and indefinite closures. The JPS said illegal sales divert resources from social programmes funded by official lottery products.
The inspections seek to protect lottery proceeds that support social programmes.
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A Dutch government-commissioned survey found that adults aged 18 to 39 more often named lottery subscriptions in unsolicited door-to-door and street sales. The survey included 1,367 respondents with door-sales experience and 1,170 with street-sales experience in the previous two years; it gave no separate age-group percentages and did not measure purchases. Minister Heleen Herbert plans to submit a cooling-off bill after Council of State advice, but its application to lotteries remains unspecified.
Adults aged 18 to 39 more often named lottery subscriptions among offers made through door-to-door and street sales, researchers at Ipsos I&O found in a Dutch government-commissioned survey. The researchers gave no separate percentages for that age group. People with higher levels of education also named lotteries more often in relation to street sales.
Pennsylvania Lottery sales fell 15% to $409.7 million in September, the lowest monthly total since February. The available figures do not state the year for the comparison period.
Pennsylvania Lottery sales reportedly fell 15% to $409.7m in September, their lowest monthly total since February.
Italy’s economy undersecretary Lucia Albano responded to a Democratic Party parliamentary question about six newly authorised online instant lotteries. She said the segment recorded €308m in sales in January-September 2026, 24% more than a year earlier, equal to 0.24% of public gaming sales; player spending was about €56m, or around 0.35% of total spending.
Italy's online instant lotteries recorded €308m in sales in the first nine months of 2026, up 24% on the same period a year earlier, economy undersecretary Lucia Albano told parliament. The segment accounted for 0.24% of total Italian public gaming sales, according to the response to a Democratic Party question on the authorisation of six new national instant lotteries with remote participation.
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.