Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game number forty-one, "Spring Fling," 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 forty-one.
(B) General design.
(1) Game number forty-one 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: free ticket, two dollars, five
dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, and one hundred thousand dollars.
Each ticket in game number forty-one shall be imprinted with six prize awards,
from the set listed above. The purchaser of the ticket will remove the block of
scratch off labeled "prize" to reveal a prize value for the ticket. Next the
player removes the covering from the block of scratch off labeled "your number"
to reveal a single digit. The purchaser then removes the covering from the
block of scratch off labeled "lucky numbers." If any of the four "lucky
numbers" matches "your number," the player wins the prize designated on the
ticket.
(3) After any given sales
cycle in game number forty-one, prizes called "grand drawing prizes" shall be
awarded in a single drawing called a "grand prize drawing." All holders of
valid winning tickets winning prizes of a free ticket, may become eligible to
be selected to participate in the grand prize drawing by complying with the
special claim, entry, receipt and validation requirements of this rule, and
with all other applicable requirements of the rules of the commission, the
regulations of the director, and the procedures established by the director.
(C) Price of tickets.
The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game number forty-one shall
be one dollar.
(D) Structure,
nature and value of prize awards.
(1) There
shall be two types of prizes in game number forty-one, namely, "regular prizes"
and "grand drawing prizes."
(2)
The only prizes which shall appear on a ticket in game number forty-one are:
free ticket, two dollars, five dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, and
one hundred thousand dollars.
The only way to win any of the regular prizes in game number
forty-one is to rub off the covering and then to match "your number" to any one
of four "lucky numbers" and win the amount in the "prize box."
(3) Eligible holders selected for
the grand drawing shall be entitled to participate in such drawing, in which
the following grand drawing prizes shall be awarded:
(a) One prize of one million dollars.
(b) One prize of forty thousand
dollars; one prize of twenty thousand dollars; one prize of ten thousand
dollars; and six prizes of five thousand dollars.
(E) Number of prize awards. The
number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game number forty-one 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 twenty million tickets sold, ten
tickets winning one hundred thousand dollars;
(b) For each one million tickets sold:
(i) Six hundred tickets winning fifty
dollars;
(ii) One thousand two
hundred tickets winning twenty-five dollars;
(iii) Twenty thousand tickets winning five
dollars;
(iv) One hundred six
thousand five hundred tickets winning two dollars;
(v) Fifty thousand tickets winning a free
ticket.
(3)
The number of grand drawing prizes shall be in accordance with paragraph (D)(3)
of this rule.
(F)
Frequency of prize drawings.
(1) The random
imprinting of prize awards on all tickets issued in game number forty-one 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
forty-one 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 forty-one in which
the ticket was sold.
(3) One grand
drawing shall be held after each sales cycle of game number forty-one. The
grand prize drawing shall be held on a date to be determined and announced by
the director, which date shall be a reasonable period of time after the end of
the sales cycle.
(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
forty-one 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 forty-one.
(1) The director shall conduct game number
forty-one 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 forty-one.
(2) Names
and definitions of elements of game number forty-one used in this rule are to
be considered generic terms used solely for the purposes of this rule. In
actual operations, game number forty-one and these elements may be given names
or titles chosen by the commission.