Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission
Chapter 3770:1-7 - Conduct of Specific Games
Section 3770:1-7-54 - Ohio lottery commission game number fifty-four
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3770:1-7-54
Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission game number fifty-four, "Holiday Cash 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 fifty-four.
(B) General design.
(1) Game number fifty-four is a lottery game
of the type generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2) As used in this rule, "prize award" shall
mean the following monetary amounts: two dollars, five dollars, twenty-five
dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars. Each
ticket in game number fifty-four 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."
(C) Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game number fifty-four shall be one dollar.
(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards.
(1) There
shall be one type of prize in game number fifty-four, a "regular prize."
(2) The only prizes which shall
appear on a ticket in game number fifty-four are two dollars, five dollars,
twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, and five hundred
dollars.
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
(d)
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.
(e) The holder of a valid ticket on which at
least three of the prize awards are one hundred dollars shall win a regular
prize of one hundred dollars.
(f)
The holder of a valid ticket on which at least three of the prize awards are
five hundred dollars shall win a regular prize of five hundred dollars.
(g) 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 fifty-four 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 nine hundred thousand tickets sold will
be as follows:
(a) Three hundred sixty
tickets winning five hundred dollars;
(b) One thousand eight hundred fifty-four
tickets winning one hundred dollars;
(c) One thousand eight hundred fifty-four
tickets winning fifty dollars;
(d)
One thousand six hundred two tickets winning twenty-five dollars;
(e) Eleven thousand two hundred fifty tickets
winning five dollars;
(f) Sixty
thousand seven hundred fifty tickets winning two dollars.
(F) Frequency of prize drawings.
(1) The random imprinting of prize awards on
all tickets issued in game number fifty-four 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 fifty-four 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 fifty-four 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
fifty-four 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 fifty-four.
(1) The director shall conduct game number
fifty-four 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 fifty-four.
(2) Names
and definitions of elements of game number fifty-four used in this rule are to
be considered generic terms used solely for the purposes of this rule. In
actual operations, game number fifty-four and these elements may be given names
or titles chosen by the commission.
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