The Virginia Lottery raked in $436 million from online lottery games between their July 1, 2020, launch and the end of February, making up 21.8% of the state lottery’s total $2 billion revenue during that period.
According to a news release Wednesday, 163,000 players have won prizes playing the lottery online, including the Mega Millions, Powerball and Cash4Life games.
The lottery generated $595 million for K-12 education in the fiscal year 2020, and it anticipates breaking sales and profit records in fiscal year 2021, which ends June 30.
