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IGT leads the regulated route market overall, with Peak Curve 49 joining Georgia COAM, while Aristocrat's Legends Multigame family tops the state's Win Per Day performance. Primero launched Ultimate Piggy Bank Smash and Lucky Babies Link in Georgia, and LNW's Kascada Dual Screen led West Virginia alongside strong Cosmic performance in Illinois. Novomatic is off to a strong start in West Virginia and continues to perform well in Georgia, while Bad Dog Games grew its Georgia footprint and showed well in the newly tracked Nebraska Skill market. This quarter's report adds two more Skill markets, Iowa and Wyoming, where Banilla Games reinforces its position as a leading multi-market Skill supplier. Full route and COAM leaderboards, Win Per Day rankings, and Skill-market breakdowns are in this quarter's report.
In this 50-page report, exclusively available to Enterprise Tier subscribers, we use our proprietary methodology and nationwide testing group to test, score, and rank the performance of U.S. casino apps. In our latest round of testing—conducted across the core markets of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan late in 1H26—DraftKings retained their top ranking while Hard Rock Bet jumped to #2, their first top-5 finish ever. FanDuel and Fanatics maintain their third and fourth place rankings, respectively, while Golden Nugget slipped to fifth.
In 2Q26, total U.S. lottery sales increased +1% y/y and +1% q/q to $26.4 billion across the 46 U.S. jurisdictions we track in our report. Instant Tickets sales increased +1% y/y and +1% q/q to $19.0 billion with growth driven by iLottery sales. Retail Instant Ticket sales declined -1% y/y but increased +1% q/q, which was modestly ahead of the average trend of relative stable sales q/q in 2Q. Draw game wagers increased by +1% y/y and +2% q/q to $7.4 billion. See the report for results and commentary for the full year as well as analysis by main product type and our CY26 forecast.
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