Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10,
2024
BASIS AND PURPOSE OF AMENDED RULE 10.D
The purpose of Rule 10.D is to provide specific game details
and requirements for the Colorado Lottery Jackpot Game "CASH 5" such as type of
play, prizes, method of selecting winning numbers, drawings, and the allocation
of revenues. The statutory basis for Rule 10.D is found in C.R.S.
44-40-109(1) (a) and
(2),
44-40-113 and
44-40-114.
10.D.1
A Colorado Lottery Jackpot game to be known as "Cash 5" is
authorized to be conducted by the Director under the following Rules and
Regulations and under such further instructions and directives as the Director
may issue in furtherance thereof. If a conflict arises between Rule 10 and this
Rule 10.D, Rule 10.D shall apply.
10.D.2
Definitions
In addition to the definitions provided in Paragraph 1.2 of
Rule 1 and Rule 10, and unless the context in this Rule 10.D otherwise
requires:
a. "Board" means a field of
the 32 numbers found on the play slip.
b. "Number" means any play integer from 1
through 32 inclusive.
c. "Play"
means the five numbers selected on each Board and printed on the
ticket.
d. "Play slip" means a
mark-sense game card used by players of Cash 5 to select plays. There shall be
ten game grids, or boards, on each play slip identified as A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, and J. A play slip has no pecuniary value and shall not constitute
evidence of ticket purchase or of numbers selected.
10.D.3
Price Of Cash 5 Tickets
The price of each Cash 5 play shall be $1.00 but may be
adjusted at the Director, or designee's, discretion.
10.D.4
Play For Cash 5
A. Type of play:
A Cash 5 player must select five numbers in each play. A
winning play is achieved only when 2, 3, 4, or 5 of the numbers selected by the
player match, in any order, the five winning numbers drawn by the
Lottery.
B. Method of play:
1. Manual- The Jackpot Game retailer may
enter the player's selected numbers via the keyboard on the Jackpot Game
terminal.
2. Play Slip- The player
may use an original play slip provided by the Lottery to make number
selections. The Jackpot Game terminal will read the play slip and issue a
ticket with corresponding plays.
i.
Facsimiles of play slips, copies of play slips, or other materials that have
not been printed or approved by the Lottery shall not be used to enter a
play.
ii. No device shall be
connected to an Jackpot Game terminal to enter plays, except as may be approved
by the Lottery.
iii. Unapproved
play slips or other devices may be seized by the Lottery.
iv. The play slip must be marked by hand.
Machine-printed play slips used to enter plays must be approved by the
Director. Unapproved machine-printed play slips may be seized by the
Lottery.
v. Nothing in this
regulation shall be deemed to prevent a person with a physical disability who
would otherwise be unable to mark a play slip manually from using any device
intended to permit such person to make such a mark (for his/her sole personal
use or benefit).
3.
Quick Pick- The Jackpot Game retailer can create ticket(s) using the Jackpot
Game terminal where the play has been created using a random number generator
operated by the Jackpot Game terminal.
4. Partial Quick Pick- A player may leave a
portion of his/her play selections to a random number generator operated by the
Jackpot Game terminal. The partial quick pick option can be used with a play
slip or manual entry by the retailer.
10.D.5
Prizes For Cash 5
a. Cash 5 prize amounts, for each drawing,
are paid to those players who select a matching combination of numbers from the
five (5) numbers selected by the Lottery in a random drawing. The prize amounts
for each prize category and odds of winning are as follows:
|
MATCHING COMBINATIONS
|
PRIZE CATEGORY
|
ODDS OF WINNING (ONE PLAY)
|
|
All five matching numbers in one play
|
$20,000.00
|
1:201,375
|
|
Any four but not five matching numbers in one
play
|
$200,00
|
1:1,491
|
|
Any three but no four or five matching numbers in
one play
|
$10,00
|
1:57
|
|
Any two but not three, four or five matching
numbers in one play
|
$1.00
|
1:6
|
b.
Aggregate Limit- In the event more than ten (10) tickets win the top prize in
any one drawing (correctly match five numbers in any one play), all top prize
winning tickets will receive an equal share of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
($200,000.00).
c. The projected
aggregate prize fund for Cash 5 is Fifty-five and Twenty-nine One Hundredths
Percent (55.29%).
d. Additional
Lottery prizes may be awarded as authorized by the Director from the Indirect
Prize Category Contribution as specified in Specific Game Playing
Rules.
e. The holder of a winning
ticket may win only one prize per play in connection with the winning numbers
drawn and shall be entitled only to the highest prize category won by those
numbers.
10.D.6
Ticket Purchases
a. Cash 5
tickets may be purchased only from a Lottery retailer authorized by the
Director to sell Jackpot Game tickets.
b. Cash 5 tickets shall show at a minimum,
the numbers selected, boards played, drawing date and validation and reference
numbers.
c. The Lottery shall not
directly and knowingly sell a combination of tickets to any person or entity
which would guarantee such purchaser a win.
d. A player may cancel a ticket and receive a
refund of the purchase price for any draw provided the following criteria are
met:
1. The legible ticket is returned to the
Jackpot Game retailer from whom the player purchased;
2. It is returned within one (1) hours of
purchase;
3. The Retailer is
open;
4. The Jackpot Game system is
available for wagering; and
5. The
Jackpot Game system has not converted to the next drawing period.
10.D.7
Drawings
a. Cash 5 drawings shall
be held as scheduled by the Director and as indicated in the Drawing
Guidelines. In the event of an act of Force Majeure the drawing shall be
rescheduled at the Director's, or the Director's designee,
discretion.
b. The drawings will be
conducted by Lottery officials and comply with Colorado Revised
Statutes.
c. Each drawing shall
determine, at random, five winning numbers in accordance with Drawing
Guidelines. Any numbers drawn are not declared winning numbers until the
drawing is certified by the Lottery in accordance with paragraph 10.D.7 d). The
winning numbers shall be used in determining all Cash 5 winners for that
drawing. If a drawing is not certified, another drawing will be conducted to
determine actual winners.
d. The
drawing shall not be invalidated based on the liability of the
Lottery.
10.D.8
Advance Play
Advance play provides the opportunity to purchase Cash 5
tickets for more than one drawing. Advance play tickets shall be available for
purchase in variable increments. The Advance Play feature shall be available at
the discretion of the Lottery Director.
10.D.9
Licensee Commission
a. In addition to the six percent (6%)
Commission set forth in Paragraph 10.14 of Rule 10, the Director may provide
such additional compensation to licensees as is deemed appropriate by the
Director to further the sale of Cash 5 tickets, so long as such additional
compensation is made equally available to all licensees and does not exceed a
total of ninety-five and twenty-nine hundredths of one percent (0.9529%) of the
total amount received by the Division from all Cash 5 tickets sold or disbursed
as of the date the Director determines to provide such additional compensation.
The ninety-five and twenty-nine hundredths of one percent (0.9529%) described
above shall consist of the following:
1.
Forty-five and twenty-nine hundredths of one percent (0.4529%) of sales from
all Cash 5 tickets lawfully sold or disbursed by an Jackpot Game retailer shall
be accrued to pay Jackpot Game retailers a one percent (1%) cashing bonus for
each Cash 5 prize redeemed by Jackpot Game retailers up to and including
$599.99.
2. Up to one-half of one
percent (0.5)% of sales from all Cash 5 tickets lawfully sold or disbursed by
an Jackpot Game retailer shall be accrued to pay Jackpot Game retailers a
marketing performance bonus.
b. In order to receive the marketing
performance bonus each Jackpot Game retailer must meet the following criteria:
1. A retailer must be a licensed retailer on
the date additional compensation is declared;
2. A retailer must meet or exceed the
requirements of the Marketing Performance Bonus Plan for the period in which
additional compensation is declared; and
3. The requirements of the Marketing
Performance Bonus Plan to be met by Jackpot Game retailers shall be established
by the Lottery Director or his designee.
c. In the event there is a residual resulting
from the accrual of the ninety-five and twenty-nine hundredths of one percent
(0.9529%) of sales after the bonuses described in 10.D.9 a.1. and 2. have been
expensed, the Director may provide additional compensation to licensees as
described in 10.D.9 a. or may revert the excess amount thereby decreasing the
bonus expense.
