New Hampshire to Award Lottery Contract

NEW YORK – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Scientific Games (Nasdaq: SGMS) announced today that it has been notified by the New Hampshire Lottery of its intent to award a contract to supply instant tickets and related services to the Lottery. With the approval of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission and Governor and Executive Council the two-year contract will begin on July 1, 2006, is valued at approximately $1.5 million per year, and provides for two options to extend for two years each. Scientific Games already holds the contract for the New Hampshire Lottery's online lottery games.

"With this contract, the New Hampshire Lottery will become the 13th U.S. lottery for which we provide both the on-line and instant games," said Lorne Weil, Chairman and CEO of Scientific Games. "Instant tickets make an important contribution to education in New Hampshire and we look forward to working with the lottery to grow that contribution."

"The New Hampshire Lottery's instant sales are consistently ranked among the top per capita lotteries. We look forward to continuing this strong sales trend through this new contract," said Rick Wisler, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Lottery.

The New Hampshire Lottery has contributed more than $1 billion to education since it became the first American state lottery in modern times back in 1964. In 2005, more than $69 million was transferred to the state education trust fund.