Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number six hundred seventeen, "Premier Cash"
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 six hundred
seventeen.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
six hundred seventeen 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 on the front side of the ticket to reveal six "Winning
Numbers," twenty-five "Your Numbers" and twenty-five corresponding prize
amounts. If any one of the "Winning Numbers" matches the any one or more of
"Your Numbers," the player wins the corresponding prize amount shown
automatically. If the player reveals a "10X" symbol, the player wins ten times
the prize amount shown automatically. If the players reveals a "20X" symbol,
the player wins twenty times the prize shown automatically. If the player
reveals a "50X" symbol, the player wins fifty times the prize shown
automatically. If the player reveals a "200X" symbol, the players wins two
hundred times the prize shown automatically. If the player reveals a "Roll of
Money" symbol, the player wins one hundred dollars automatically. The player
will then remove the covering off the entire play area on the backside of the
ticket to reveal two "Bonus Games" which are played separately. Each game has a
"Winning Number" and five "Your Numbers." If the player matches one or more
"Your Numbers" with the "Winning Number," in the same Bonus Game, the player
wins the prize amount shown below the matching number(s). The games on the
front and back of the ticket are played separately. There are thirty-five
chances to win on each ticket, and a player may win up to thirty-five times on
one ticket.
(3)
The only "prize values," which shall appear on a ticket
in game rule number six hundred seventeen are: ten dollars, twenty dollars,
twenty-five dollars, thirty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five
hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and an "Annuity
Prize Award" of eighty thousand dollars per year for twenty-five years before
taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of one million 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 forty-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 six hundred seventeen shall be twenty
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature and value of prizes.
(1)
There shall be
one type of prize in game rule number six hundred seventeen called 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: thirty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars,
five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and an
"Annuity Prize Award" of eighty thousand dollars per year for twenty-five years
before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of one million dollars
before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." Each ticket in game rule
number six hundred seventeen 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 seventeen 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 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 seventy-three, the player having the prize value and
multiplier, if any, on that same line in column three and four shall win the
prize award on that same line in column five. A player having the prize value
set forth on line seventy-three 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 seventy-three in column five represent the
estimated cost of annuity investment, at time of game development, to fund the
"Annuity Prize Award." In a pool of three million two hundred thousand 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 and four
should be as set forth on that same line in column six.
(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 seventeen
shall be accomplished in a manner that complies with the commission's rules and
procedures.
(2)
When a ticket issued in game rule number six hundred
seventeen 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 seventeen 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 seventeen 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 six hundred
seventeen.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number six hundred
seventeen, 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 seventeen. 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
six hundred seventeen used in this rule are to be considered generic terms used
solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number six
hundred seventeen and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the
commission.
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