Three months after the creation of the first Commission, the Hoosier Lottery was in full operation and on October 13, 1989, scratch-off ticket sales began. On the first day alone, 8.19 million tickets were sold and the totals for the first week of sales exceeded $21.8 million. By March 1991, the Hoosier Lottery ranked sixth in instant ticket sales among the 33 state lotteries.

Hoosier Lottery profits have generated more than $2.4 billion in proceeds used to support teacher, firefighter and police pension funds and to lower license plate taxes. Currently lottery profits are distributed to the Build Indiana Fund, Teachers retirement and Police/Fire Pension funds. Since inception, the Hoosier Lottery has totaled more than $9 billion in total sales. The games offered by the Hoosier Lottery are as follows: