Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number six hundred eleven, "Merry Millions"
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 six hundred
eleven.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
six hundred eleven is a key number match game with three bonus spots and is
generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2)
Holders of valid
tickets will remove the covering over the entire play area to reveal "$50
Bonus," "$100 Bonus," "$500 Bonus," eight "Winning Numbers," twenty "Your
Numbers", and twenty corresponding prize amounts. In "$50 Bonus," if the player
reveals a "$50 Bill" symbol, the player wins fifty dollars automatically. In
"$100 Bonus," if the player reveals a "$100 Bill" symbol, the player wins one
hundred dollars automatically. In "$500 Bonus," if the player reveals a "$500
Bill" symbol, the player wins five hundred dollars automatically. 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 automatically. If the player
reveals a "Star" symbol, the player wins the corresponding prize amount
automatically. If the player reveals a "$500 Burst" symbol, the player wins
five hundred dollars shown automatically. If the player reveals a "Wreath"
symbol the player wins all twenty prizes shown automatically. There are
twenty-three chances to win on each ticket, and a player can win up to
twenty-three times on one ticket.
(3)
The only "prize
values," which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number six hundred eleven
are: ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, thirty dollars, fifty
dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one
thousand dollars, ten 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 six hundred eleven 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 six hundred eleven shall be twenty
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature, value, and number of prize
awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule six hundred
eleven, a "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, thirty dollars,
fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred dollars,
one thousand dollars, ten 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 six
hundred eleven 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 six
hundred eleven 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 partial reordered tickets. Tickets shall be printed in
accordance with this rule using random techniques.
(1)
Combinations
winning each prize award are randomly distributed throughout all tickets
printed in any given ticket issuance.
(2)
For each line in
column one of the appendix to this rule, except line fifty-three, 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-three 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 line fifty-three,
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 two million six hundred thousand tickets sold,
mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having the prize
value and multiplier, if any, set forth on a given lines 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 six hundred eleven
shall be accomplished in a manner, which complies with the commission's rules
and procedures.
(2)
When a ticket issued in game rule number six hundred
eleven 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 prize award. All prize awards shall be deemed announced no later than the
last day of the sales cycle of game rule number six hundred eleven 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 six hundred eleven 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 six hundred
eleven.
(1)
The
director shall conduct game rule number six hundred eleven 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 six hundred eleven.
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 six hundred eleven used in this rule are
used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number
six hundred eleven and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by
the commission.
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