Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number three hundred seven, "$10,000 A Month
For Life" shall be conducted at such times and for such periods as the
commission may determine. For the purposes of this rule, "sales cycle" shall
mean any such period, including reprints, beginning on the date when ticket
sales are commenced and continuing through the date established by the director
as the date on which sales agents are to make their final settlement with
respect to tickets allocated to them during the period in game rule number
three hundred seven.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
three hundred seven is a key number match game and is generally known as an
"instant lottery."
(2)
Holders of valid tickets will remove the covering over
the entire play area to reveal three "Winning Numbers," fifteen "Your Numbers"
and fifteen corresponding prize amounts. If the player matches one or more of
the "Winning Numbers" to one or more of "Your Numbers," the player wins the
corresponding prize amount(s). If the player reveals a "Star" symbol, the
player wins the prize automatically. If the player reveals a "Life" symbol, the
player wins one hundred twenty thousand dollars per year for the winner's
natural life, but not less than twenty years, before taxes or the "Elected
Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately one million two hundred thousand
dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." If the player
matches any of "Your Numbers" to one of the "Winning Numbers" and the
corresponding prize value revealed is a "TPD" symbol, the player wins five
thousand five hundred dollars automatically, and upon the filing of a valid
claim at an Ohio lottery commission office, shall automatically be entered into
the Top Prize Drawing ("TPD") for a chance to win an "Annuity Prize Award" of
one hundred twenty thousand dollars per year for the winner's natural life, but
not less than twenty years, before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize
Award" of approximately one million two hundred thousand dollars before taxes
in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." The Top Prize Drawing shall be conducted
in accordance with Ohio lottery rules and procedures established and approved
by the director. There are fifteen chances to win on each ticket, and a player
may win up to fifteen times on one ticket.
(3)
The only "prize
values" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number three hundred seven
are: five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five
dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred
dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, the
"TPD" symbol corresponding to a prize value of five thousand five hundred
dollars and the "Life" symbol corresponding to a prize value of one hundred
twenty thousand dollars per year for the winner's natural life, but not less
than twenty years. Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on any
ticket in game rule number three hundred seven shall be concealed by an opaque
covering which may be scratched off by the holder of the ticket to reveal the
underlying numbers, prize values and play symbols.
(C)
Price of tickets.
The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game rule number three
hundred seven shall be five dollars.
(D)
Structure,
nature, value, and number of prize awards
(1)
There shall be
two types of prizes in game rule three hundred seven, a "regular prize award"
and a "TPD" prize award.
(2)
As used in this rule , "prize award" shall mean one of
the following monetary figures which is the total of all winning prize values
appearing on the ticket: five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty
dollars, twenty-five dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred
dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five
thousand dollars, the "TPD" symbol corresponding to a prize value of five
thousand five hundred dollars and one million two hundred thousand dollars or
one hundred twenty thousand dollars per year for the winner's natural life, but
not less than twenty years, before taxes. Each ticket in game rule number three
hundred seven shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set
listed above may be won.
(3)
The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game
rule number three hundred seven will depend upon the number of tickets sold
during that cycle. However, distribution and availability for public purchase
may be affected by, but not limited to, circumstances such as stolen,
defective, missing, damaged, promotional, returned or reordered tickets.
Tickets shall be printed in accordance with this rule using random
techniques.
(a)
Combinations winning each prize award are randomly
distributed throughout all tickets printed in any given ticket
issuance.
(4)
For each line in column one of the appendix to this
rule, except lines 38 and 39, the player having the prize value and multiplier,
if any, on that same line in column three shall win the prize award on that
same line in column four. A player having the prize value set forth on line 38,
column three of the appendix to this rule or the player winning the TPD drawing
as set forth on line 39, column three of the appendix to this rule shall win
either the "Annuity Prize Award" or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award." The
amounts set forth on lines 38 and 39 in column four represent the estimated
cost of annuity investment, at time of game development, to fund the "Annuity
Prize Award." In a pool of nineteen million six hundred thousand tickets sold,
mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having the prize
value and multiplier, if any, in column three should be as set forth on that
same line in column five.
(E)
Tickets sold.
Chances of winning and the number of winning tickets are established at the
time of printing and will change as prizes are won.
(F)
Frequency of
prize drawings.
(1)
Random imprinting of prize awards on all tickets issued
in game rule number three hundred seven shall be accomplished in a manner,
which complies with the commission's rules and procedures.
(2)
When a ticket
issued in game rule number three hundred seven is sold or deemed sold in
accordance with this rule and the covering material over any of the numbers,
prize values and play symbols has been removed, the holder shall be deemed to
have drawn the numbers, prize values and play symbols on that ticket which
determine whether the holder is entitled to a regular prize award. All regular
prize awards shall be deemed announced no later than the last day of the sales
cycle of game rule number three hundred seven in which the ticket was
sold.
(3)
The Top Prize Drawing to award one prize of an "Annuity
Prize Award" of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars per year for the
winner's natural life, but not less than twenty years, before taxes or the
"Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately one million two hundred
thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award" shall take
place in accordance with rules and procedures established and approved by the
director, and specifically, rule
3770:1-6-05 of the
Administrative Code governing "Prize drawings" and rule
3770:1-6-06
of the Administrative Code governing "Special lottery drawings." Such drawings
shall be held on dates determined and announced by the director, however, the
earliest Top Prize Drawing date shall be one hundred eighty-one days from the
game close date or when all tickets winning a prize value corresponding with a
"TPD" symbol have been claimed, whichever is earlier.
(G)
Special claim, entry, receipt and validation procedures. The director shall
establish special claim, entry, receipt and validation procedures, including
procedures for validation by sales agents of tickets winning prize awards which
are to be paid by sales agents in accordance with commission rules. Prize
awards shall be claimed within the time limits set forth by commission
rules.
(H)
Validity of Tickets.
(1)
A mechanical
error in printing prize awards, symbols, words 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 may 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 of comparable price.
(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
rule number three hundred seven void if it is stolen, unissued, deactivated,
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 the ticket
fails any of the validation tests or procedures established by the director.
The commission's liability and responsibility for a ticket declared void, if
any, is limited to refund of the retail sales price of the ticket or issuance
of a replacement ticket of comparable price.
(I)
Director's
conduct of game rule number three hundred seven.
(1)
The director
shall conduct game rule number three hundred seven and any promotions or
drawings associated therewith in a manner consistent with the Lottery Act and
the rules of the commission including, without limitation, this rule. The
director shall inform the public of the provisions of this rule and the
procedures established pursuant hereto which affect the play of game rule
number three hundred seven. The director reserves the right to declare any
instant game as unavailable for sale at any time to maintain game integrity and
accountability.
(2)
Names and definitions of elements of game rule three
hundred seven used in this rule are used solely for purposes of this rule. In
actual operation, game rule number three hundred seven and these elements may
be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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