WyoLotto shares $1.2 million in profits with state

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Lottery has made a quarterly transfer payment of over $1.2 million to the state for distribution to cities, towns and counties.

That brings the total amount the lottery has paid out to the state this fiscal year to over $6.6 million. It is the largest fiscal year transfer total since WyoLotto started making transfers to the state in April 2016 and the seventh consecutive transfer to the state of over $1 million, totaling over $16 million.

In the past five years since it began, WyoLotto has seen 4.2 million winners share over $58 million in player winnings.

WyoLotto provides the draw games Cowboy Draw, Powerball, Mega Millions, Lucky for Life and WyoLotto Ragtime Raffle.