Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission
Chapter 3770:1-7 - Conduct of Specific Games
Section 3770:1-7-38 - Ohio lottery commission game number thirty-eight
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3770:1-7-38
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission game number thirty-eight, "$100,000 Holiday Match," shall be conducted at such times and for such periods as the commission may determine. For the purpose of this rule, "sales cycle" shall mean any such period beginning on the date when ticket sales are commenced and continuing through the date established by the director as the date on which agents are to make their final settlement in respect to tickets allocated to them during the period in game number thirty-eight.
(B) General design.
(1) Game number thirty-eight is a lottery
game of the type generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2) As used in this rule, "prize award" shall
mean one of the following monetary amounts: two dollars, five dollars, twenty
dollars, fifty dollars, and one hundred thousand dollars. Each ticket in game
number thirty-eight shall be imprinted with five prize awards from the set
listed above. These prize awards shall be concealed by an opaque covering which
can be scraped off by the holder of the ticket to reveal the underlying prize
awards. Holders of valid tickets on which at least three of the prize awards
are the same shall win a prize award called a "regular prize" equal to such
prize award. Such tickets shall be called "winning tickets."
(C) Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game number thirty-eight shall be one dollar.
(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards.
(1) There shall be one
type of prize in game number thirty-eight, namely, a "regular prize."
(2) The only prizes which shall
appear on a ticket in game number thirty-eight are: two dollars, five dollars,
twenty dollars, fifty dollars, and one hundred thousand dollars.
(a) The holder of a valid ticket displaying
two dollars in three separate boxes in any row, column, or diagonal on the
ticket shall win a regular prize of two dollars.
(b) The holder of a valid ticket displaying
five dollars in three separate boxes in any row, column, or diagonal on the
ticket shall win a regular prize of five dollars.
(c) The holder of a valid ticket displaying
twenty dollars in three separate boxes in any row, column, or diagonal on the
ticket shall win a regular prize of twenty dollars.
(d) The holder of a valid ticket displaying
fifty dollars in three separate boxes in any row, column, or diagonal on the
ticket shall win a regular prize of fifty dollars.
(e) The holder of a valid ticket displaying
one hundred thousand dollars in three separate boxes in any row, column, or
diagonal on the ticket shall win a regular prize of one hundred thousand
dollars.
(f) If a ticket bears two
sets of three prize awards, only the higher prize award will be won.
(E) Number of prize awards. The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game number thirty-eight will depend upon the number of tickets sold during that cycle. Tickets shall be printed in accordance with this rule using random techniques in order that:
(1) Combinations winning each
prize award are randomly distributed throughout all tickets printed in any
given ticket issuance; and
(2)
Mathematical reasoning indicates that over a sufficiently large number of
tickets sold, the average number of winning tickets sold will be as follows:
(a) For each nine million tickets sold, nine
tickets winning one hundred thousand dollars;
(b) For each one million tickets sold:
(i) Six hundred thirty-two tickets winning
fifty dollars;
(ii) Two thousand
six hundred thirty-five tickets winning twenty dollars;
(iii) Seventeen thousand nine hundred fifteen
tickets winning five dollars;
(iv)
One hundred twenty-three thousand eight hundred twenty-seven tickets winning
two dollars.
(F) Frequency of prize drawings.
(1) The random imprinting of prize awards on
all tickets issued in game number thirty-eight shall be accomplished in a
manner which complies with the commission's rules and procedures authorized
thereunder.
(2) When a ticket
issued in game number thirty-eight is sold or deemed sold in accordance with
this rule, and the covering material over any of the numbers has been removed,
the holder shall be deemed to have drawn the numbers on that ticket which
determine whether the holder is entitled to a regular prize. All regular prizes
shall be deemed to be announced no later than the last day of the sales cycle
of game number thirty-eight in which the ticket was sold.
(G) Special claim, entry receipt and validation procedures. The director shall establish special entry, claim receipt and validation procedures, including procedures for validation by agents of tickets winning prizes which are to be paid by agents in accordance with these rules.
(H) Validity of tickets.
(1) A mechanical error in printing
prize awards or other numbers on a ticket shall not automatically invalidate
that ticket. To the extent feasible, the director shall establish procedures by
which the holder of any ticket on which information is incorrectly printed due
to mechanical malfunction can be advised of correct information for the ticket.
If it is not technically feasible to recover the information from a
mechanically misprinted ticket, the director may declare the ticket void and
the holder shall be entitled to a return of the ticket price, or a replacement
ticket.
(2) In addition to, but
not in limitation of, all other power and authority conferred on the director
by the commission's rules, the director may declare a ticket in game number
thirty-eight to be void if it is stolen, unissued, not sold or deemed not sold
in accordance with commission rules; if it is illegible, mutilated, altered,
counterfeit, misregistered, reconstituted, miscut, defective, printed or
produced in error or incomplete; or if any portion of the "void if removed"
number is exposed; or if the ticket fails any of the validation tests or
procedures established by the director pursuant hereto. The commission's
liability and responsibility for a ticket declared void, if any, is limited to
the refund of the retail sales price of the ticket, or the issuance of a
replacement ticket.
(I) Director's conduct of game number thirty-eight.
(1) The director shall conduct game number
thirty-eight in a manner consistent with the Lottery Act, the rules of the
commission, including without limitation, this rule and the regulations of the
director. As he deems it necessary or advisable, the director shall adopt
management regulations, orders or directives to implement and operate this
lottery game. The director shall inform the public of the provisions of this
rule, and the procedures established pursuant hereto, which affect the play of
game number thirty-eight.
(2)
Names and definitions of elements of game number thirty-eight used in this rule
are to be considered generic terms used solely for the purposes of this rule.
In actual operations, game number thirty-eight and these elements may be given
names or titles chosen by the commission.
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