Primm Property Closings Present A Challenge For Lottery Players From Nevada

The Primm Valley Lotto Store is located in the state of California, a little under 40 miles from the Las Vegas Strip and quite literally a hop, skip, and jump from the Nevada state line.

And because Nevada is one of five states that does not permit lottery play — the others being Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah — the Primm Valley Lotto Store is the nearest place for folks who live in and around Vegas to go to buy lottery tickets.

But as Primm properties continue going out of business one by one, Nevadans are set to lose the lotto outlet after July 4.

Yes, America’s 250th birthday will be a funeral for the shop located at 10277 Lotto Store Road in Nipton, California.

And after that, people who live in that area of Nevada will have to find a new, at least slightly farther away place to buy their Powerball, Mega Millions, and scratch tickets.

Big jackpots, long lines

Affinity Interactive, the owner of the Primm properties, closed Whiskey Pete’s Hotel & Casino in December 2024 and Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino in July 2025 — both located in Primm, Nevada. It announced last week the closure of Primm Valley Resort & Casino, effective July 4, just like the Lotto Store. The Primm Valley property had been open since 1990.

The Lotto Store has been known to do strong business whenever the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots grow particularly large, with thousands sometimes waiting in line there when the advertised amount shifts from something in the millions to something in the billions. That hasn’t been happening in 2026, however, as Powerball has barely gotten above $250 million and Mega Millions topped out with a $536 million win in March. Mega Millions still hasn’t seen a billion-dollar jackpot since the price increase from $2 to $5 in April 2025.

Not that a lack of jackpot-fueled traffic was what sealed the Primm Valley Lotto Store’s fate; this is a case of casino properties going under and taking a lottery shop with them.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal identified three alternative options for purchasing lottery tickets:

• The Terrible’s Chevron station on Yates Well Road in Nipton, about seven miles south of Primm.
• The Nipton Historical Village, also in Nipton, on Route 164 a few miles from the state line.
• The Last Stop Travel Center in White Hills, Arizona, about a 60-mile drive from the Vegas Strip.