Current through September 17, 2024
710.01 Promotion Description
The Powerball Power Play promotion is a limited extension of
the Powerball game and is conducted in accordance with the Powerball game rules
and other lottery rules applicable to the Powerball game except as may be
amended herein. The promotion will begin at a time announced by the Nebraska
Lottery and will continue until discontinued by the Nebraska Lottery. The
promotion will offer to the owners of a qualifying play a chance to increase
the amount of any of the eight lump sum Set Prizes (the lump sum prizes
normally paying $4 to $1,000,000) won in a drawing held during the promotion.
The Grand Prize jackpot is not a Set Prize and will not be
increased.
710.02 Qualifying
Play
Except as otherwise provided in the Powerball game rules or
these Regulations, a qualifying play is any single Powerball play for which the
player pays an extra dollar for the Power Play option play and which is
recorded at the Party Lottery's central computer as a qualifying
play.
710.03 Prizes to be
increased
A qualifying play which wins one of the eight lowest lump sum
Set Prizes (excluding the Jackpot prize) shall be paid as follows;
| Match 5+0 | $2,000,000 |
| Match 4+1 | $40,000 |
| Match 4+0 | $200 |
| Match 3+1 | $200 |
| Match 3+0 | $14 |
| Match 2+1 | $14 |
| Match 1+1 | $12 |
| Match 0+1 | $12 |
710.04 Prize pool
710.04(1)
Prize Pool. The prize
pool for all prize categories shall consist of up to forty-nine and ninety-six
one-hundredths ( 49.96%) percent of each drawing period's sales, including any
specific statutorily-mandated tax of a selling lottery to be included in the
price of a ticket, after the Powerball prize reserve accounts are funded to the
amounts set by the Product Group. Any amount remaining in the prize pool at the
end of this game shall be returned to all lotteries participating in the
reserve after the end of all claim periods of all selling lotteries, carried
forward to a replacement game, or expended in a manner as directed by the
Product Group in accordance with state law.
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0.04(2)
Prize Reserve Accounts. An additional
four-one-hundredths of one percent ( 0.04%) of sales, including any specific
statutorily-mandated tax to be included in the price of a ticket, may be
collected and placed in the rollover account or in trust in one or more prize
reserve accounts until the prize reserve accounts reach the amounts designated
by the Product Group
710.04(3)
Expected Prize Payout. Except as provided in these rules, all
prizes awarded shall be paid as lump sum set prizes. Instead of the Powerball
set prize amounts, qualifying Power Play plays will pay the amounts shown in
710.03.
In certain rare instances, the Powerball set prize amount may
be less than the amount shown. In such case, the eight lowest Power Play prizes
will be changed to an amount announced after the draw. For example, if the
Match 4+1 Powerball set prize amount of $10,000 becomes $5,000 under the rules
of the Powerball game, then a Power Play player winning that prize amount would
win $20,000.
710.07 Limitations on payment of Power Play
prizes
710.07(1)
Prize Pool Carried
Forward. The prize pool percentage allocated to the Power Play set
prizes shall be carried forward to subsequent draws if all or a portion of it
is not needed to pay the set prizes awarded in the current draw.
710.07(2)
Pari-Mutuel Prizes.
-All Prize Amounts. If the total of the original Powerball set prizes and the
multiplied Power Play set prizes awarded in a drawing exceeds the percentage of
the prize pools allocated to the set prizes, then the amount needed to fund the
set prizes (including the multiplied set prizes) awarded shall be drawn from
the following sources, in the following order:
(i) the amount allocated to the set prizes
and carried forward from previous draws, if any;
(ii) an amount from the Powerball Set-Prize
Reserve Account, if available in the account, not to exceed twenty-five million
dollars ($25,000,000) per drawing. If, after these sources are depleted, there
are not sufficient funds to pay the set prizes awarded (including multiplied
prizes), then the highest set prize (including the multiplied prizes) shall
become a pari-mutuel prize. If the amount of the highest set prize, when paid
on a pari-mutuel basis, drops to or below the next highest set prize and there
are still not sufficient funds to pay the remaining set prizes awarded, then
the next highest set prize, including the multiplied prize, shall become a
pari-mutuel prize. This procedure shall continue down through all set prize
levels, if necessary, until all set prize levels become pari-mutuel prize
levels. In that instance, the money available from the funding sources listed
in this rule shall be divided among the winning plays in proportion to their
respective prize percentages.
710.08 Prize payment
710.08(1)
Prize Payments. All
Power Play prizes shall be paid in cash through the Party Lottery that sold the
winning ticket(s). A Party Lottery may begin paying Power Play prizes after
receiving authorization to pay from the MUSL central office.
710.08(2)
Prizes Rounded.
Prizes, which, under these rules, may become pari-mutuel prizes, may be rounded
down so that prizes can be paid in multiples of whole dollars. Breakage
resulting from rounding these prizes shall be carried forward to the prize pool
for the next drawing.
