Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number six hundred ninety-five, "Million
Dollar Mega Multiplier" 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 ninety-five.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
six hundred ninety-five 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-five "Your
Numbers" and twenty-five corresponding prize amounts. If any one of the
"Winning Numbers" matches the any of "Your Numbers," the player wins the
corresponding prize amount. If the player wins a prize, the player may scratch
the "Mega Multiplier" in the corresponding "Row." If the player reveals a
"10x," "25x," or "50x," the player will multiply the corresponding prize by
ten, twenty-five, or fifty accordingly. Each row is played separately. 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 six hundred ninety-five are: one dollar, two dollars, three
dollars, four dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty
dollars, twenty-five dollars, thirty 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 six hundred ninety-five 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 ninety-five shall be ten dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule number
six hundred ninety-five 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: 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 six hundred
ninety-five 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 ninety-five 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 ninety-five, the player having the prize value and
multiplier, if any, on that same line in column three shall win the prize award
on the same line in column four. A player having the prize value set forth on
line ninety-five of column three of the appendix to this rule shall win either
the "Annunity Prize Award" or the "Elected Cash Option Prize Award." The
amounts set forth on line ninety-five 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 six million
tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having
that prize value and multiplier in column three, if any, 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 ninety-five 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 ninety-five 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 ninety-five 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 ninety-five 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
ninety-five.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number six hundred
ninety-five, 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 ninety-five. 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 ninety-five 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 ninety-five and these
elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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