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New Hampshire Lottery Joins Mega Money Jackpots

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Follows multi-state eInstant record jackpot award of $5.8 million

Instant Win Gaming (IWG), a leading supplier of eInstant games to NASPL and WLA-member lotteries, congratulates the New Hampshire Lottery on joining the Company’s multi-state eInstant progressive, Mega Money Jackpots.

The New Hampshire Lottery launched Jackpot Spectacular, its first game in the Mega Money Jackpots linked progressive pool, for players in the Granite State on April 24th. New Hampshire joins Pennsylvania and Virginia in offering Mega Money Jackpots linked games.

Additionally, IWG congratulates the Virginia Lottery along with its Mega Money Jackpots player who won a record-setting $5.8 million prize. The win sets another new U.S. iLottery record for the largest eInstant prize.

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Mega Money Jackpots launched in July 2023, and over the past nine months the game has created eight millionaires. Since launch, more than 240 players across the participating lotteries have won Mega and Minor jackpots totaling more than $20 million.

The amount and frequency of these prizes showcases the excitement of IWG’s Mega Money Jackpots. To achieve this, select eInstants from participating lotteries each contribute a small percentage of the sales to fund the two progressive prize tiers, with IWG administering the settlement of jackpot prize monies on a turnkey basis.

The multi-state eInstant progressive jackpot is powered by IWG’s InstantJackpots. Since all functionality is contained within IWG’s InstantRGS (remote game server), no development support is required by a lottery’s iLottery platform provider. Additionally, new lotteries can join the system regardless of their iLottery platform provider.

Charlie McIntyre, Executive Director at New Hampshire Lottery, said: “Our industry has a proud track record of collaborating across state lotteries. We’re excited to join Mega Money Jackpots and to bring the excitement of it outsized prizes to our players. We know that our contribution will further enhance the game for everyone involved, and we look forward to creating some new millionaires here in New Hampshire.”

Rhydian Fisher, CEO at IWG, said: “Kudos to the team at New Hampshire Lottery. By joining Mega Money Jackpots, collectively we can award even more million dollar prizes to lottery players. Not only is the game frequently creating new millionaires, but it has also been a leading catalyst for new player signups. Fingers crossed that some new millionaires will be created in New Hampshire very soon.”

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25 years of ZEAL: A quarter century of online lottery in Germany

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  • From living room start-up to online market leader
  • Ambitious growth targets and innovative product ideas

ZEAL Network SE, the market leader for online lotteries in Germany, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Founded in 1999 as Tipp24, the company was one of the first on the German market to bring lotteries to the internet. Since then, ZEAL has had a lasting impact on the German online lottery business. 

“We are very proud of a quarter century of ZEAL,” says Helmut Becker, CEO of ZEAL. “What began 25 years ago as a two-man start-up in Hamburg has now developed into a group of companies with more than 250 employees. We are more successful than ever in our core business of lottery brokerage and are continuously expanding our market share and our business model. In doing so, we are staying true to our motto: we define the future of lottery.”

From start-up to international group

ZEAL was founded as Tipp24 in Hamburg in 1999. The company was one of the first providers to enable participation in state lotteries in Germany via the Internet – with great success. The IPO followed in 2005. This was followed by the temporary relocation of the company headquarters to London, the change of name to ZEAL Network SE and the development of new business abroad. In 2019, the company returned to Hamburg and took over LOTTO24 AG. This made ZEAL the largest lottery broker in Germany. Today, more than 1.3 million customers play with ZEAL’s brands every month.

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“As one of the founders, I am particularly happy about ZEAL’s success story,” says Jens Schumann, co-founder of ZEAL 25 years ago and now a member of the Supervisory Board. “When we founded the company, we printed out the lottery tickets that our customers played online and handed them in at the kiosk around the corner. A lot has happened since then. Today, ZEAL is one of Germany’s leading e-commerce companies. It gives me great pleasure to have been so closely involved in its development to date.”

Continuing to grow in the core business, developing new business areas

Today, ZEAL is the market leader for online lotteries in Germany. The brokerage of participation in state and charity lotteries remains the company’s core business, which it intends to expand in the future. In addition, ZEAL is continuously developing its portfolio: in the summer, for example, the company launched the first raffle of an existing property in Germany with Traumhausverlosung (English name: Dream House Raffle). ZEAL also appeals to younger target groups in particular with the freiheit+ charity lottery. Last year, ZEAL also launched an online games offering, which has been continuously expanded since then. ZEAL also operates the online presence of the ONCE charity lottery in Spain, a public organization for the blind, and invests in industry-specific start-ups via its ventures department ZEAL Ventures.

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PolarLotto Acquires Competitor and Strengthens Market Position

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Polar Group Technologies (PolarLotto), one of Sweden’s leading lottery betting companies, is pleased to announce the acquisition of one of its main competitors, lottoexperten.se, through the purchase of all shares in More Tech Group Ltd.

This deal is a strategic step to further strengthen our position in the Swedish market and enhance the experience for our customers.

With this purchase, we continue our growth journey and reinforce our commitment to oFering attractive and exciting lottery betting products. The two companies combined have over 85,000 registered customers, and we look forward to welcoming all the new customers that now will join us into the PolarLotto group.

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“This acquisition is an important step in our development and continued growth,” says Daniel Bessmert, CEO of Polar Group Technologies AB.

“We are proud to combine the best of both companies to create even more value for our customers and partners.”

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Scientific Games Named Ohio Lottery’s New Lottery Gaming System Partner

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Scientific Games announces that the company has been selected as the Ohio Lottery’s new lottery gaming system technology partner following a competitive procurement process by the State of Ohio. The global lottery company won the award and looks forward to responsibly driving the Ohio Lottery’s future growth and sustainability. One hundred percent of Ohio Lottery profits help support the state’s K-12, vocational and special education programs. Scientific Games is the lottery industry’s fastest-growing lottery systems provider.

Pat McHugh, Scientific Games CEO, said, “On behalf of all the Scientific Games teams who have been hard at work developing a responsible, sustainable growth plan for the Ohio Lottery with our newest, performance-driven technology, we are celebrating this award. We look forward to working  with the Ohio Lottery to bring new products and technology which will ultimately help support education funding in Ohio.”

Scientific Games will provide the Ohio Lottery with the company’s Momentum ecosystem, featuring the advanced AEGIS central gaming system and Infuse business intelligence tool. The company’s innovative WAVE point-of-sales terminals and Lottery InMotion digital content system will support the Ohio Lottery’s extensive retailer network. Scientific Games’ PlayCentral suite of self-service machines will enable the lottery to engage Ohio players with expanded game content while also supporting new retailer and restaurant locations.

The Ohio Lottery will be supported by a Scientific Games team of game, product and technology experts and facilities management services. The company provides the Lottery’s Scratch-Off games  and manages the games through the performance-driven Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership program at its facility in metro Cleveland.

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The SGEP program, which has been in place with the Ohio Lottery since 2019, provides inside sales, and advanced logistics and analytics. The Lottery is ranked in the top 20 worldwide for instant game per capita performance (La Fleur’s 2024 World Lottery Almanac). The company has provided Ohio Lottery Scratch-Off games for more than 23 consecutive years.

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