Public Gaming International Magazine January/February 2023

back features a second display color that can pair with price point color themes to help retailers and warehouse employees easily identify games. Since 2017, HD Games contributed over $4 billion in sales to the industry with more than 100 games launched. Players are clearly enjoying the 3D play experience, with HD Games performing about 12% better than other games in their price point category. In fiscal year 2022, HD Games sales grew by nearly 36%. 7. Sparkle Select Scientific Games expanded its innovative Sparkle product line to include the brand new Sparkle Select series of foils. Sparkle Select combines the best of brilliant metallics with the intriguing glow of holographics to give games an extra wow factor. New Hampshire’s $500,000 Fortune game was the first to use Sparkle Select with a Gold Twinkle pattern that blends small holographic twinkling dots with a beautiful gold finish. The game went on to become the Lottery’s most successful $10 game that year and reached $500,000 per week in sales by week five. The game sustained popularity with players, and the Lottery is now on its third iteration of $500,000 Fortune which has been enhanced with the Lots of Dots Sparkle pattern in purple, green and yellow. The Delaware Lottery’s $10 Lion Share game featuring Scientific Games’ advanced graphics and Copper Hasty Sparkle Select pattern exceeded expectations through week 10, selling 41% better than the other $10 games in the market. In 2021, the Pennsylvania Lottery launched its first $50 game. Featuring Sparkle Select, in the first 10 weeks retail sales were more than double other $50 games in the U.S. launched that year on average. The Green Jungle pattern highlights money graphics across the $5 Million Money Maker game. Pennsylvania players embraced the game, and it was reordered after only five weeks on sale. 8. Monopoly Secret Vault Guess the code and win BIG. The excitement builds as players scratch to reveal Mr. MONOPOLY’s vault filled with riches and colorful, holographic play symbols. The latest addition to the globally recognized brand, MONOPOLY Secret Vault features new assets and designs for lottery games while maintaining the classic MONOPOLY icons consumers know and love. Offering unique opportunities for Strategic Product Enhancements, MONOPOLY Secret Vault is an extension of lottery’s highest-performing licensed brand and it’s offered exclusively by Scientific Games. 9. Rose Gold Sparkle The beauty of rose gold blends with shimmering metallic sparkle for a truly dazzling effect on games. The color has grown in popularity in fashion, décor and many other consumer products over the past several years. Now, it’s available in lottery games with Scientific Games’ Rose Gold Sparkle – a brilliant metallic with a rose holographics glow. Now available in digitally printed HD Games fonts to seamlessly bring the luxury theme into the play area. Since 2018, a total of 12 Rose Gold games have launched with an average index of 105. 10. Punch N’ Play This unique enhancement extends the excitement as players advance through multiple steps and levels in a coordinates-based game featuring a fold and hole punches. Players scratch the coordinates and mark the corresponding play spots on the grid. If three matching symbols based on the prize legend are revealed, the player wins. The opportunity to win continues as players then fold the ticket at the score, punch out the perforated holes, and scratch the corresponding spots on the grid to reveal more symbols. If matching symbols based on the prize legend appear, the player wins. In Punch N’ Play product testing, players responded positively. Extended play game fans particularly loved the extra ways to play with the fold and hole punches.

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