Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number three hundred ninety, "Diamond 10s"
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, 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
ninety.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
three hundred ninety is a key number match game and is generally known as an
"instant lottery."
(2)
Holders of valid tickets will remove the covering off
the entire play area to reveal six "Winning Numbers," twenty "Your Numbers" and
twenty corresponding prize values. If any one or more of the "Your Numbers"
matches any one or more of the "Winning Numbers," the player wins the
corresponding prize shown beside the matching "Your Number." If the player
reveals a "10X" symbol, the player wins ten times the corresponding prize
shown. If the player reveals a "Diamond" symbol the player wins all twenty
prizes 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." There are twenty chances to win on each ticket, and
a player may win up to twenty times on one ticket.
(3)
The only "prize
values," which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number three hundred
ninety are: five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars,
twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred fifty
dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, two thousand five hundred
dollars, ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, and one million
dollars. Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on any ticket in game
rule number three hundred ninety 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 ninety shall be ten dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule number
three hundred ninety called 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: ten dollars,
fifteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty five dollars, fifty dollars, one
hundred dollars, two hundred fifty dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand
dollars, two thousand five hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars, twenty
thousand dollars, and 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.". Each ticket in game rule number three hundred ninety
shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set listed above
may be won.
(E)
Number of prize awards. The number of prize awards in
any sales cycle of game rule number three hundred ninety 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 in order that the following occur:
(1)
Combinations
winning each prize award are randomly distributed throughout all tickets
printed in any given ticket issuance; and
(2)
For each line in
column one of the appendix to this rule, except line 59, 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 59, column three of the appendix of this rule shall win
either the "Annuity Prize Award" or the "Elected Cash Option Prize Award." The
amount set forth on line 59, 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.
(F)
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.
(G)
Frequency of prize drawings.
(1)
Random imprinting
of prize awards on all tickets issued in game rule number three hundred ninety
shall be accomplished in a manner that complies with the commission's rules and
procedures.
(2)
When a ticket issued in game rule number three hundred
ninety 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
ninety in which the ticket was sold.
(H)
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.
(I)
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 ninety 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.
(J)
Director's conduct of game rule number three hundred
ninety.
(1)
The
director shall conduct game rule number three hundred ninety, and any
promotions 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 ninety. 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 number
three hundred ninety used in this rule are to be considered generic terms used
solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number three
hundred ninety and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the
commission.
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