Delaware Lottery, the state's online casino regulator

What the Delaware Lottery is

The Delaware Lottery is a state-operated lottery. The statute, Title 29, Chapter 48 of the Delaware Code, puts it under a Director appointed by the Secretary of Finance with the written approval of the Governor. The Lottery's fact sheet says the law establishing the Delaware State Lottery was signed on May 31, 1974, and that the first games went on sale in 1975. Video lottery machines arrived at the three racetracks in 1995 and 1996, table games in May 2010, and sports lottery in 2009 and 2018.

Unlike most states, Delaware does not hand out online casino permits to a long list of private companies. The online games are lottery games operated by the Office, and the casinos take part as its licensed agents.

The legal basis for online games

Section 4826 of Chapter 48 authorizes the Director to operate an Internet lottery under the chapter, other Delaware law and federal law. The section lays out what the rules must cover: the types of games and wagering limits, player accounts held only by natural persons, identity verification, deposit and withdrawal procedures, limits on wagers and losses, and the exclusion of people who are under age or on a self-exclusion list. The Director must also ensure that each website carries an advertisement and link for services for compulsive gamblers and their families.

The statute requires software that verifies the player is physically present in Delaware when the wager is placed. It also defines the casinos' role: a video lottery agent is a person the Director has licensed to conduct table games, video lottery games, sports lottery games and Internet lottery games. Section 4810 makes it unlawful for anyone under 21 to wager on video lottery, sports lottery, table games or the internet versions of them; the age for ticket games is 18.

Background checks of licensed individuals run through the Division of Gaming Enforcement, which makes a recommendation to the Director on suitability.

What the Lottery publishes

• iGaming pages with buttons to the three casino sites: Delaware Park, Bally's Dover and Harrington. The banner says the games run on platforms powered by BetRivers and that players must be 21 and in Delaware.
• A Rules and Regulations page that points to the Delaware regulations website (Title 10, section 206).
• Monthly proceeds and distribution reports for each fiscal year. The report for fiscal year 2026 shows 62,940 registrations, and total net gaming revenue of $135,928,894 across the three casinos, split among table games, video games and poker.
• A self-exclusion page, described below.
• A fact sheet, updated July 2026. It records that Delaware launched iGaming on November 7, 2013, and describes itself as the first state to do so.

The Lottery does not publish a permit list in the style of other regulators. The three casino buttons are the register.

How a resident can check a site

1. Open the Lottery's iGaming page on delottery.com.
2. Look for the site among the three buttons: Delaware Park, Bally's Dover or Harrington.
3. Confirm the web address you reach matches the one the button opens. The buttons open sites on the betrivers.com domain, for example delawarepark.betrivers.com.
4. A site not reached from those buttons is not shown by the Lottery as one of the state's online casinos.

Self-exclusion and complaints

The Lottery runs a self-exclusion program covering all gaming at the three casinos and their iGaming websites, plus the Lottery's iGaming and sports mobile app. Enrollment is in person at the Lottery office at 1575 McKee Road, Suite 102, Dover; application forms are not mailed. The choices are one year, five years or a lifetime, and a lifetime entry cannot be removed. A person on the list who knowingly enters a gaming area commits a Class A misdemeanor, and winnings are subject to forfeiture.

We found no complaint page for online gaming on the Lottery's site. The Lottery's phone line, listed on the self-exclusion page, is (302) 744-1669. For gambling problems, the footer of the Lottery's iGaming pages lists the Delaware Council on Gambling Problems helpline, 1-888-850-8888, and the site DEProblemGambling.org.

Sweepstakes casinos

The Lottery pages we read do not address sweepstakes casinos. Industry trackers report that the state sent a cease-and-desist letter to VGW on April 7, 2025; that report is trade press, is not primary, and was not checked by us against a state release. Delaware's position is covered with the other states on the banned states page.

What we read

Our client read the Lottery's pages on November 11, 2026. The site's robots.txt disallows a handful of PDF rule files, and we did not fetch them. Title 29 of the Code was read on the state's code site. The Delaware regulations website loads its text with scripts that our client does not run, so the text of the internet lottery regulation was not read.