Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number four hundred thirty-nine, "Win Big,"
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 four hundred
thirty-nine.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
four hundred thirty-nine 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 amounts. If any one of the "Winning Numbers" matches
any of "Your Numbers," the player wins the corresponding prize amount for that
game. If the player reveals a "Star" symbol, the player wins the corresponding
prize automatically. If the player reveals a "Big" symbol, the player wins five
hundred dollars automatically. If any one of "Your Numbers" matches the "Win
Big Number," the player wins all twenty prizes shown automatically. 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 four hundred thirty-nine 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 an "Annuity Prize Award" of forty thousand dollars per
year for twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize
Award" of approximately five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of
the "Annuity Prize Award." Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on
any ticket in game rule number four hundred thirty-nine 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
four hundred thirty-nine shall be ten dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule number
four hundred thirty-nine 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 Prize
Award" of approximately five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of
the "Annuity Prize Award." Each ticket in game rule number four hundred
thirty-nine 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 four
hundred thirty-nine 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 fifty- nine, 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 fifty-nine, 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 line 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 four million tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests that the
number of tickets having the prize value and multiplier, if any, on a given
line in column three 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 four hundred
thirty-nine shall be accomplished in a manner that complies with the
commission's rules and procedures.
(2)
When a ticket
issued in game rule number four hundred thirty-nine 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 four hundred thirty-nine 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 four hundred thirty-nine 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; if the ticket fails any of the validation tests or procedures
established by the director; or if the ticket is obtained in violation of
commission rules, including, but not limited to, by way of prize discounting
prohibited under rule
3770-3-01
of the Administrative Code. 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 four hundred
thirty-nine.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number four
hundred thirty-nine, 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 four hundred thirty-nine. 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 four hundred thirty-nine used in
this rule are to be considered generic terms used solely for purposes of this
rule. In actual operation, game rule number four hundred thirty-nine and these
elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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