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Lottery Sales Reach New High, Exceed $1 Billion Again
For the second time in Missouri Lottery history, ticket sales surpassed $1 billion. Total unaudited sales for Fiscal Year 2012, which ended June 30, set a new all-time record, coming in at $1,099,678,019 – 9.8 percent higher than the previous fiscal year.
“Our retail network has worked hard, our employees have worked hard and our players have been good to us,” said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. “Each year continues to be more challenging, and we will continue to search for new ways to raise money for public education.”
Reardon said that in addition to record sales, the Lottery also recently posted record proceeds of more than $280 million in FY12.
“The record sales and proceeds can be attributed to many factors,” she noted. “We benefited from a world-record Mega Millions jackpot last March. We also added millions in sales and proceeds due to Powerball game changes last January.
“Throughout the past year, we looked at ways to make our operations more efficient, to incent retailers to sell new games faster, to find alternative places to sell tickets and to increase the number of Scratchers in vending machines. We also advertised more and developed partnerships with several sports teams to gain exposure. It all added to the bottom line.”
More than $689 million* in prizes were awarded to Missouri Lottery players during FY12, bringing the total prizes won since the Lottery began in 1986 to more than
$8.9 billion.* Twenty-four Missouri Lottery tickets worth $1 million or more were sold, awarding jackpots ranging from $1 million to $5 million. A total of $43.8 million in jackpot prizes were won by players during the past fiscal year.
Fourteen Powerball tickets worth $200,000 were sold in Missouri, including two Powerball players who matched five numbers and used Power Play to bump the prize up to $1 million. Six other players who played the new Powerball game won an automatic $1 million for matching all five white-ball numbers. Eleven Mega Millions players won prizes worth $250,000.
A total of 59 jackpot-winning Show Me Cash tickets ranging from $50,000 to $472,000 were also won by Missouri Lottery players in FY12.
During the past fiscal year, retailers who sell Missouri Lottery products earned more than $67.8 million* in commissions, incentives and bonuses for selling Lottery tickets, bringing the total historically to more than $929 million.*
SALES BY PRODUCT
| FY12* | FY11 | |
| Lotto | $22,615,708 | $25,215,759 |
| Pick 3 | $65,130,012 | $64,078,928 |
| Pick 4 | $31,400,601 | $29,557,600 |
| Show Me Cash | $29,020,467 | $29,530,109 |
| EZ Match | $4,086,349 | $2,490,930 |
| Powerball | $94,904,401 | $83,385,041 |
| Mega Millions | $42,944,602 | $34,886,537 |
| Club Keno | $65,354,519 | $65,314,996 |
| Lucky Dough | $0 (Game ended) | $45,678 |
| Scratchers | $744,221,360 | $666,817,880 |
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Total:
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$1,099,678,019 | $1,001,323,458 |
SALES HISTORY
| FY12 | $1,099,678,019* |
| FY11 | $1,001,323,458 |
| FY10 | $971,864,489 |
|
FY09 |
$968,451,895 |
| FY08 | $995,492,888 |
| FY07 | $934,270,658 |
| FY06 | $913,518,251 |
| FY05 | $785,597,632 |
| FY04 | $791,154,358 |
| FY03 | $708,047,512 |
| FY02 | $585,189,254 |
| FY01 | $508,301,104 |
| FY00 | $507,845,586 |
| FY99 | $513,251,456 |
|
FY98 |
$494,298,761 |
| FY97 | $439,592,300 |
| FY96 | $422,530,945 |
| FY95 | $411,664,824 |
| FY94 | $350,518,546 |
| FY93 | $256,675,345 |
| FY92 | $220,359,753 |
| FY91 | $216,240,866 |
| FY90 | $223,367,147 |
| FY89 | $199,202,382 |
| FY88 | $147,761,618 |
| FY87 | $174,081,815 |
| FY86 | $206,990,610 |
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Total:
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$15,047,271,472* |
*unaudited figures
