Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission
Chapter 3770:1-7 - Conduct of Specific Games
Section 3770:1-7-46 - Ohio lottery commission game number forty-six
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3770:1-7-46
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission game number, forty-six, "BINGOHIO II," 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-six.
(B) General design.
(1) Game number forty-six is a lottery game
of the type generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2) As used in this rule, "prize award" shall
mean a free ticket, or one of the following monetary amounts: two dollars, five
dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Each ticket in game number forty-six shall be imprinted with six 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."
(3) After any given sales cycle in
game number forty-six, prizes called "grand drawing prizes" shall be awarded in
a single drawing called a "grand drawing." All holders of valid winning tickets
winning prizes of a free ticket, may become eligible to be selected to
participate in the grand 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-six shall be one dollar.
(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards.
(1) There shall be two types of
prizes in game number forty-six, called "regular prizes," and "grand drawing
prizes."
(2) The only prizes which
shall appear on a ticket in game number forty-six are: free ticket, two
dollars, five dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, and seventy-five
thousand dollars.
(a) The holder of a valid
ticket on which at least three of the prize awards are free tickets shall win a
regular prize of a free ticket.
(b) The holder of a valid ticket on which at
least three of the prize awards are two dollars shall win a regular prize of
two dollars.
(c) The holder of a
valid ticket on which at least three of the prize awards are five dollars shall
win a regular prize of five dollars.
(d) The holder of a valid ticket on which at
least three of the prize awards are twenty-five dollars shall win a regular
prize of twenty-five dollars.
(e)
The holder of a valid ticket on which at least three of the prize awards are
fifty dollars shall win a regular prize of fifty dollars.
(f) The holder of a valid ticket on which at
least three of the prize awards are seventy-five thousand dollars shall win a
regular prize of seventy- five thousand dollars.
(g) If a ticket bears two sets of three prize
awards, only the higher prize award will be won.
(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-six 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 per one million tickets sold will be as
follows:
(a) For each twenty-five million
tickets sold, twenty tickets winning seventy-five thousand dollars.
(b) For each one million tickets sold:
(i) Six hundred thirty tickets winning fifty
dollars;
(ii) Sixteen hundred
tickets winning twenty-five dollars;
(iii) Twenty thousand tickets winning five
dollars;
(iv) One hundred thousand
tickets winning two dollars; and
(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-six 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-six 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-six in which
the ticket was sold.
(3) One grand
drawing shall be held after each sales cycle of game number forty-six. The
grand 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-six 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-six.
(1) The director shall conduct game number
forty-six 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-six.
(2) Names
and definitions of elements of game number forty-six used in this rule are to
be considered generic terms used solely for the purposes of this rule. In
actual operations, game number forty-six and these elements may be given names
or titles chosen by the commission.
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