IWG Adds Kentucky and Pennsylvania Lotteries to Rocket Jackpots Network

Instant Win Gaming (IWG) said on 3 November 2026 that it has expanded its Rocket Jackpots multi-state progressive network to the Kentucky Lottery and the Pennsylvania Lottery, bringing the network to four participating lotteries.

Rocket Jackpots launched only months ago with the North Carolina Education Lottery and the Virginia Lottery. Kentucky and Pennsylvania are the next two additions. IWG supplies eInstant games, which are digital versions of lottery instant-win tickets, and Rocket Jackpots layers shared progressive prizes on top of that content.

Four lotteries now share the Rocket Jackpots network

The network grew from two lotteries to four with this announcement. The table summarizes the participants as IWG described them.

IWG did not release go-live dates for the two new lotteries, the games that carry the jackpots, or prize sizes in the material reported so far.

Both new participants are existing IWG lottery customers. According to Lottery Daily, the Pennsylvania Lottery launched IWG's progressive jackpot-enabled e-instant games in February 2021. According to iGaming Future, the Kentucky Lottery launched IWG's Must Go Jackpots earlier in 2026. For Kentucky, readers can find wider context in Gamingo's earlier look at how the state's gaming market has been changing. Pennsylvania's broader market scale is covered in Gamingo's report on record monthly gaming revenue in the state.

How the Power Jackpot, Boost Jackpot and InstantFuse work

Rocket Jackpots is built around two independent multi-state progressives, the Power Jackpot and the Boost Jackpot. In standard play, each grows separately as players across the participating lotteries take part.

The feature that ties them together is InstantFuse. During scheduled Power Boost Hours, which IWG says occur as a daily event, InstantFuse merges the two progressives into a single larger prize pool. When the window ends, the jackpots separate and resume growing on their own.

IWG executive vice president Jason Lisiecki commented on InstantFuse in terms of player retention and engagement. A fixed daily window gives players a predictable reason to return, which is the retention argument behind the format. Gamingo has also followed how lotteries use instant-win content to hold interest, including the Mummy's Mines instant-win title with a 10,000x maximum win.

InstantRGS delivery and the jackpot-manager role

Rocket Jackpots runs through IWG's proprietary InstantRGS, its remote game server (RGS), the system that hosts game logic and serves games to a lottery's digital channel. IWG says the design allows it to expand into new jurisdictions without development support from iLottery platform providers, the vendors that run lotteries' online sales platforms.

That has a practical effect on rollout speed. Adding a lottery to the network depends on IWG's own server rather than on integration work by each lottery's platform vendor.

IWG also acts as jackpot manager. In that role it administers settlement of jackpot prize monies across the participating lotteries, so a shared prize won in one state is funded and reconciled across the network. According to igaming.news, IWG used a comparable jackpot-manager approach when it launched an earlier multi-state progressive in July 2023.

What the expansion means for lotteries and suppliers

For lotteries, the appeal is a progressive prize pool larger than a single state would generate alone, delivered without a separate platform build. Each added lottery contributes players to the shared pools, which gives the network more scope to grow its jackpots.

For suppliers and platform providers, the notable point is the delivery route. Because Rocket Jackpots runs on InstantRGS, IWG keeps control of the jackpot logic and settlement. Lotteries that already use other vendors for their iLottery platforms can still take part.

Online lottery is an active area elsewhere in the US as well. Gamingo has covered the planned Massachusetts online lottery launch, which shows the same shift of lottery products toward digital channels.

Status reviewed on 3 November 2026. Network details come from IWG's statement as relayed by EEGaming. More business news and North America coverage.