Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number three hundred eighty-four,
"$100,000,000 Fortune" 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 eighty-four.
(B)
General
design.
(1)
Game rule number three hundred eighty-four 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 six
"Winning Numbers," twenty-five "Your Numbers", and twenty-five 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
value(s). If the player reveals a "Star" symbol, the player wins the
corresponding prize amount automatically. If the player reveals a ""Bank"
symbol, the player wins five times the prize shown automatically. If the player
reveals a "Fortune" symbol, the player wins all twenty-five prizes shown
automatically. If a player matches any of "Your Numbers" to one of the "Winning
Numbers" and the corresponding prize value revealed is one million dollars, the
player shall win an "Annuity Prize Award" of forty thousand dollars per year
for twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash Option" of
approximately five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the
"Annuity Prize Award." If a player matches any of "Your Numbers" to one of the
"Winning Numbers" and the corresponding prize value revealed is two million
dollars, the player shall win an "Annuity Prize Award" of eighty thousand
dollars per year for twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash
Option" of approximately one million dollars before taxes in lieu of the
"Annuity Prize Award." If a player matches any of "Your Numbers" to one of the
"Winning Numbers" and the corresponding prize value revealed is five million
dollars, the player shall win an "Annuity Prize Award" of two hundred thousand
dollars per year for twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash
Option" of approximately two million five hundred thousand dollars before taxes
in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award."
(3)
The only "prize
values," which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number three hundred
eighty-four are: five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five
dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred
dollars, two hundred fifty dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars,
ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, one million dollars, two million
dollars, and five million dollars. Numbers, prize values and play symbols
appearing on any ticket in game rule number three hundred eighty-four 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 eighty-four shall be twenty
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature, value, and number of prize
awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule three hundred
eighty-four, a "regular 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: twenty dollars,
twenty-five dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five
hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand
dollars, an "Annuity Prize Award" of forty thousand dollars per year for
twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash Option" of approximately
five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize
Award," an "Annuity Prize Award" of eighty thousand dollars per year for
twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash Option" of approximately
one million dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award," or an
"Annuity Prize Award" of two hundred thousand dollars per year for twenty-five
years before taxes or the "Elected Cash Option" of approximately two million
five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize
Award." Each ticket in game rule number three hundred eighty-four 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 eighty-four 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 44, 45, and 46, 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
lines 44, 45, or 46, of 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 44, 45, and 46, of column four of the appendix to
this rule represent the estimated cost of annuity investment, at time of game
development, to fund the "Annuity Prize Award." In a pool of seven million
tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having
the prize value and multiplier, if any, set forth on a given line in column
three of the appendix to this rule 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
eighty-four 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 eighty-four 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 eighty-four in which the ticket was
sold.
(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 eighty-four
void if it is stolen, 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
eighty-four.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number three hundred
eighty-four 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 eighty-four. 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 eighty-four used in this
rule are used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule
number three hundred eighty-four and these elements may be given names or
titles chosen by the commission.
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