- New Hampshire’s charitable game rooms reported $42,374,820 in June revenue, up 31% from a year earlier.
- Video lottery terminals generated $21,643,774, more than half the total, in their first June in service.
- Historic horse racing revenue fell 56% to $10,343,417, losing its place as the state’s top machine game.
- State revenue rose 51% to $7,143,220, well ahead of the 31% growth in overall play.
CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire’s charitable game rooms reported $42,374,820 in gaming revenue in June, up 31% from a year earlier. Video lottery terminals produced $21,643,774 of that, more than half the month’s total.
Video Terminals Produced More Than Half The Month’s Revenue
Video lottery terminals accounted for 51% of everything New Hampshire’s game rooms took in during June, according to the New Hampshire Lottery and Gaming Commission’s June 2026 gaming revenue report. The terminals returned $4,394,504 to the state, $2,336,012 to charities and $14,913,258 to game operators.
The machines had no line at all in the commission’s June 2025 report, which covered only games of chance and historic horse racing. The monthly series first records terminal revenue in January 2026, and the five-year comparison table carries video lottery figures for 2026 alone.
The terminals play like slot machines, the nearest thing New Hampshire floors offer to online slots, and they now outproduce every other category in the state.
Live games of chance, the poker and table games the charitable system was built around, brought in $10,387,629, up 17% from $8,855,828 a year earlier.
Historic Horse Racing Revenue Fell 56%
Historic horse racing machines produced $10,343,417 in June against $23,493,263 in June 2025, a 56% decline. Those terminals had out-earned games of chance for the state every June since 2022, according to the report’s five-year comparison.
The reversal is visible across the calendar year as well. Game operator revenue from historic horse racing runs $61,180,942 through June, down 38% from $99,195,230 over the same stretch of 2025.
The State’s Take Rose 51% And Charities Held 16% Of The Pot
State revenue climbed to $7,143,220 in June from $4,720,108, a 51% increase against 31% growth in total play. The gap comes from the split written into each category rather than from volume.
Video lottery terminals returned about 20 cents of every revenue dollar to the state in June. Historic horse racing returned about 16 cents, and games of chance about 10 cents.
Play moving from horse racing terminals to video lottery terminals therefore raises the state’s yield, which is why the tax line moved faster than the play behind it. Machine revenue now supplies 75% of everything the state’s rooms collect, and that mix defines New Hampshire gambling.
Charities collected $6,879,599, up 33% from $5,155,200. Their share of the overall pot barely moved, from 15.9% to 16.2%, because both machine categories pay charities far less per dollar than live games of chance do. Games of chance returned 35% of revenue to charities in June, while video lottery terminals returned 10.8% and historic horse racing 8.7%.
The Nash Led At $13.5 Million And Two Rooms Went Dark
The Nash in Nashua was the largest single room at $13,514,298, up 60% from $8,447,545 a year earlier. The Brook in Seabrook followed at $8,642,506, up 19%.
Twelve of the 14 game rooms listed in the report posted revenue in June. Casino Salem recorded none after March, and Lakes Region Casino recorded none for the first time this year.
Those rooms are the only regulated floors in a state with no commercial casino law and no legal online casino, which leaves residents who want to play at home on offshore USA gambling sites.
Operator revenue from games of chance runs $32,158,968 for the calendar year to date, up 21% from $26,654,648 at the same point in 2025, the mirror image of the historic horse racing decline.
July figures land in the commission’s next monthly report.