Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number four hundred ninety-four, "Fastest
Road to $1 Million" 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
four hundred ninety-four.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
four hundred ninety-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 ten "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) automatically. If the player
reveals a "10X" symbol, the player wins ten times the corresponding prize
amount automatically. If the player reveals a "20X" symbol, the player wins
twenty times the corresponding prize amount automatically. If the player
reveals a "50X" symbol, the player wins fifty times the corresponding prize
amount automatically. If the player reveals a "200X" symbol, the player wins
two hundred times the corresponding prize amount automatically. If the player
reveals a "Moneybag" symbol, the player wins one hundred dollars automatically.
There are twenty-five chances to win on each ticket, and a player may win up to
twenty-five times on one ticket.
(3)
The only "prize
values" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number four hundred
ninety-four are: ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, thirty
dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred
dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, ten
thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars, one million dollars which is to be
paid as 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 ninety-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
four hundred ninety-four shall be thirty dollars.
(D)
Structure,
nature, value, and number of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be
one type of prize in game rule four hundred ninety-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: forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars,
five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, fifty
thousand dollars, 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 ninety-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 four hundred ninety-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 line forty-two, 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
forty-two, 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 forty-two 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 twelve 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.
(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 four hundred
ninety-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 four hundred ninety-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 four hundred ninety-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 four hundred ninety-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; 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.
(I)
Director's conduct of game rule number four hundred
ninety-four.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number four
hundred ninety-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 and the regulations of the director.
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 ninety-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 four
hundred ninety-four used in this rule are used solely for purposes of this
rule. In actual operation, game rule number four hundred ninety-four and these
elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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