Scientific Games Award Portuguese Lottery Contract

NEW YORK – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS) announced that Santa Casa Misericordia de Lisboa (SCML), the only state-authorized lottery of Portugal, has awarded Scientific Games the exclusive contract to supply instant lottery tickets valued at $3.5 million over its entire term of one year and three one-year options to renew.

SCML has 5,000 lottery retailers in its network and generated instant lottery ticket sales of $60 million out of total lottery sales of $780 million in calendar 2004.

Lorne Weil, chairman and CEO of Scientific Games Corporation, said, "We welcome this opportunity to work with SCML to increase instant ticket sales in Portugal. As in many other European countries, sales of instant tickets trail behind those of the more traditional online lottery games. Based on our experience in the region, we are convinced that this represents an enormous opportunity to help SCML generate more funds for beneficiaries."

Lourdes Hill, CEO of the Games Department of SCML, said, "Instant lottery is a popular game in Portugal and, in spite of heavy competition from other games of our portfolio, it benefits from a regular and faithful segment of the Portuguese population. We expect the added-value from Scientific Games to bring the best practices and new ideas to our instant lottery, in order to boost sales and respond to the expectations of our customers and the many beneficiaries of the game -- namely children in need and young students' projects."