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Games Inc. Sets Lottery Corporation Share Dividend

CINCINNATI, Ohio – (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Board of Games Inc. (OTC BB:GMSI.OB) is pleased to announce that all Games Inc. shareholders, as of the close of business today, will receive a previously announced dividend of the shares of Lottery Corporation. All shareholders of Games Inc. will receive shares of Lottery Corporation at the rate of one share of Lottery Corporation for each 4 shares of Games Inc. Common stock. Those Lottery shares will be registered and will become publicly tradable in the future, after applicable SEC filings are completed.

The Board is also pleased to announce the appointment of Carol Meinhardt as CEO of Lottery Corporation. "Lottery Corporation will give our shareholders a 'pure play' in the expected growth of Lottery Online," said Ms. Meinhardt. "Working with our Executive Vice President, Dennis Kennedy, former Lottery Director of the Ohio Lottery, as well as our CTO, Tristan Smith, we will continue to deliver quality services to state lotteries and will actively support those jurisdictions which are actively exploring offering Lottery Online to their customers."

Lottery Corporation owns and operates Lottery.com, the most active state and Provincial Lottery information service site on the Web. Lottery.com also provides co-branded lottery results to a wide variety of Web Publishers including Yahoo!, AOL Digital Cities, Gannett, Tribune Companies, and USA Today.

Virtually every US state offers Internet Access to a wide variety of state services, from License Plates to Lawsuits and Tax Payment systems. No state yet offers Lottery access, Online; but Lottery Online is the most rapidly growing segment of the United Kingdom's National Lottery and is in use in two Canadian Provinces. 2005 Annual Lottery sales exceeded $50 Billion in North America.

Forty-one states now offer Lottery to their citizens; while most states are able to offer Lottery Online, Georgia, North Carolina and Illinois have either enacted or are considering enabling legislation for Lottery Online.

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