China lotteries post lowest sales since May in October
![](https://igamingbusiness.com/img-srv/n2w2arrAVZZUDdutUUd2LuTpR1ydNaYO0Dq2EUaDEnA/resizing_type:auto/width:0/height:0/gravity:sm/enlarge:1/ext:webp/strip_metadata:1/quality:90/bG9jYWw6Ly8vaWdhbWluZ2J1c2luZXNzLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAyMC8wOC9TaGFuZ2hhaS5qcGc.webp)
Sports Lottery made up the majority of sales, at CNY18.43bn. While this was the lowest figure since June, it was up 24.0% year-on-year.
The largest contributor to Sports Lottery sales were numbers games, bringing in CNY8.86bn, up 34.8% year-on-year despite the lowest sales since March. Sports betting, on the other hand, saw sales grow 13.6% to CNY8.40bn
Instant win sports lottery games brought in CNY1.36bn, a 2.9% increase, while sports video lottery sales remained very low at only CNY50,000.
The Welfare Lottery, meanwhile, brought in CNY12.28bn, down 5.4% from 2019 and at its lowest mark since April.
With video lottery terminals – which brought in CNY2.66bn in 2019 – suspended for the Welfare Lottery ahead of an outright ban from early 2021, numbers games continued to dominate, bringing in CNY10.68bn, up 20.6% but below each of the previous six months.
Instant win games contributed much of the rest of the total, after increasing 33.9% year-on-year to CNY1.54bn.
While every other game that was available declined month-on-month, Keno experienced significant growth, up 320.0% month-on-month and 412.2% from last year to CNY60.2m.
So far this year, lottery sales in China total CNY261.40bn, down 23.9% from 2019.