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Nov 10, 2014
ATLANTA – November 8, 2014 – Only three weeks in, the new multi-state lottery game MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB has delivered on the promise of creating more and more millionaires with the first-ever Top Prize winner from New Jersey wining $21 million, and unlocking 14 other $1 million winners from nine states and the District of Columbia as a result of the drawing on November 7. In total, there are over 91k winning tickets ranging from $5 to $21 million.
“Our player research consistently indicates that participants would prefer to see millions of dollars in lottery prizes distributed to more winners, rather than one or two players winning hundreds of millions of dollars each,” Steve Saferin, President of Properties Group and Chief Creative Officer for Scientific Games said. “The game has delivered and created multiple millionaires, and we look forward to the creation of many more millionaires in the future.”
The MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB lottery game debuted October 19 in 23 states. Its unique play style features three ways to win $1 million. Players can win the Top Prize, which is capped at $25 million and instantly triggers a separate drawing that awards a minimum of 10 Millionaires’ Club prizes of $1 million. Lastly, lottery players can enter the webcode on their tickets online at www.playmmc.com to build MONOPOLY-themed Property Sets to earn an entry into a random drawing for the chance to attend the taping of the nationally televised game show “MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB,” which debuts in February 2015. Selected players will be flown to Las Vegas where the show will be taped, and will receive a five-day, four-night stay for two, plus spending money. Billy Gardell, star of “Mike & Molly”, will serve as the host of the show.
Contestants on the show are then selected at random from the audience to play a series of games, each of which will offer cash and other prizes valued up to $100,000. The final round offers one player a shot at $1 million prize.
The MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB lottery game drawings are Fridays at 11:15 p.m. Eastern and tickets are $5 each. Each week the Top Prize is not won, the number of $1 million prizes increases.
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About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation is a leading developer of technology-based products and services and associated content for worldwide gaming and lottery markets. The company's portfolio includes instant and draw-based lottery games; electronic gaming machines and game content; server-based lottery and gaming systems; sports betting technology; loyalty and rewards programs; and social, mobile and interactive content and services. For more information, please visit: www.scientificgames.com.
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Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated in these statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, including, among other things: competition; U.S. and international economic and industry conditions, including declines in or slow growth of lottery retail sales or gross gaming revenues, reductions in or constraints on capital spending by gaming or lottery operators and credit risk relating to customers; slow growth of new gaming jurisdictions, slow addition of casinos in existing jurisdictions and declines in the replacement cycle of gaming machines; ownership changes and consolidation in the casino industry; opposition to legalized gaming or the expansion thereof; ability to adapt to, and offer products that keep pace with, evolving technology; ability to develop successful gaming concepts and content; laws and government regulation, including those relating to gaming licenses and environmental laws; inability to identify and capitalize on trends and changes in the gaming and lottery industries, including the expansion of interactive gaming; dependence upon key providers in our social gaming business; retention and renewal of existing contracts or entry into new or revised contracts; level of our indebtedness, higher interest rates, availability and adequacy of cash flows and liquidity to satisfy obligations or future needs, and restrictions and covenants in our debt agreements; protection of our intellectual property, ability to license third party intellectual property, and the intellectual property rights of others; security and integrity of our software and systems and reliance on or failures in our information technology systems; natural events that disrupt our operations or those of our customers, suppliers or regulators; inability to benefit from, and risks associated with, strategic equity investments and relationships, including (i) the inability of our joint venture to meet the net income targets or otherwise to realize the anticipated benefits under its private management agreement with the Illinois lottery, (ii) the inability of our joint venture to meet the net income targets or other requirements under its agreement to provide marketing and sales services to the New Jersey lottery or otherwise to realize the anticipated benefits under such agreement (including as a result of a protest) and (iii) failure to realize the anticipated benefits related to the award to our consortium of an instant lottery game concession in Greece; failure to achieve the intended benefits of the acquisition of WMS, including due to the inability to realize synergies in the anticipated amounts or within the contemplated time-frames or cost expectations, or at all; inability to complete future acquisitions, including the pending acquisition of Bally Technologies, Inc. ("Bally") due to the failure to obtain the required approvals or debt financing or otherwise; litigation relating to the pending Bally acquisition; disruption of our current plans and operations in connection with the pending Bally acquisition (whether prior to its completion or following its completion, including in connection with the integration of Bally), including departure of key personnel or inability to recruit additional qualified personnel or maintain relationships with customers, suppliers or other third parties; costs, charges and expenses relating to the pending Bally acquisition; inability to successfully integrate future acquisitions, including Bally (including SHFL entertainment, Inc. and Dragonplay Ltd.) following completion of the pending Bally acquisition; failure to realize the intended benefits of the pending Bally acquisition, including the inability to realize the anticipated synergies in the anticipated amounts or within the contemplated time-frames or cost expectations, or at all; inability to control Bally until completion of the Bally acquisition; incurrence of restructuring costs, revenue recognition standards and impairment charges; fluctuations in our results due to seasonality and other factors; dependence on suppliers and manufacturers; risks relating to foreign operations, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and restrictions on the import of our products; dependence on our employees; litigation and other liabilities relating to our business, including litigation and liabilities relating to our contracts and licenses, our products and systems, our employees, intellectual property and our strategic relationships; influence of certain stockholders; and stock price volatility. 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