Virginia Lottery unveils new state-of-the-art gaming app

(WFXR) — There’s a brand new gaming app that places the lottery within the palm of your hand.

This new app from the Virginia Lottery will compensate for the shortly altering state of digital gaming within the Commonwealth.

“This isn’t only a new app, it’s a brand new expertise,” stated Virginia Lottery Appearing Govt Director Kelly Gee. “With a strategic concentrate on offering the very best buyer expertise and attracting new, digital-savvy clients, our partnership with WillowTree has allowed us to take the Virginia Lottery’s app to a brand new degree and really improve our gamers’ interplay with us.”

In line with the Virginia Lottery, the app gamers the choice to play the next video games:

• Choose 3 and Choose 4 with Fireball
• Money 5 with EZ Match
• Powerball
• Mega Thousands and thousands
• Money 4 Life
• Greater than 40 digital on the spot video games which might be equal to scratchers
• Enter promotional and second-chance drawings
• Verify profitable numbers
• Scan a ticket to see in case you are a winner

This state-of-the-art app was designed and developed by WillowTree.

“This app represents an enormous step ahead in each capabilities and person expertise, permitting Virginians to play real-money iLottery video games as a completely native cell expertise,” stated WillowTree CEO Tobias Dengel. “Cellular gaming is a gigantic trade, and this app offers Virginia Lottery the chance to enter that house and open a brand new income stream. We all know the Lottery has an vital mission and this new app presents substantial progress potential when it comes to supporting Okay-12 training within the Commonwealth.”

On-line gross sales of tickets began on July 1, 2020, and the Virginia Lottery reported greater than $800 million in gross sales. This 12 months’s fiscal 12 months, the lottery is reporting to achieve greater than $1.3 billion in simply on-line gross sales.

“Virginia Lottery has been an incredible accomplice,” added Dengel. “WillowTree has places nationwide, however our Virginia headquarters allowed us to work side-by-side with Virginia Lottery to navigate a regulated, tremendous complicated expertise and switch it into one thing consumer-competitive. Collectively we’ve got constructed an revolutionary expertise that meets the demanding expectations of right now’s mobile-first client.”

In case you desirous about taking part in on-line, you should be a minimum of 18 years or older and positioned in Virginia. If you need to obtain the Virginia Lottery app simply head to the web site.