Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number seven hundred two, "MonopolyT $10,000
A Month For Life!*" 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
seven hundred two.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
seven hundred two 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 four "Monopoly Numbers," fifteen "Your Numbers"
and fifteen corresponding prize amounts. If the player matches one or more of
the "Monopoly Numbers" to one or more of "Your Numbers," the player wins the
corresponding prize amount(s). If the player reveals a "Train" symbol, the
player wins the prize automatically. If the player reveals a "Mr. Monopoly"
symbol, the player wins one hundred twenty thousand dollars per year for the
winner's natural life, but not less than twenty years, before taxes or the
"Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately one million two hundred
thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." Should the
prize winner of the one hundred twenty thousand dollar per year for the
winner's natural life, but not less than twenty years, before taxes, be claimed
by more than one prize winner, the applicants will only be entitled to the
shared Cash-Option Prize Award", There are fifteen chances to win on each
ticket, and a player may win up to fifteen times on one ticket.
(3)
The only "prize
values" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number seven hundred two
are: five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five
dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred
dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, and
the "Mr. Monopoly" symbol corresponding to a prize value of one hundred twenty
thousand dollars per year for the winner's natural life, but not less than
twenty years, before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of
approximately one million two 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 seven hundred two 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
seven hundred two shall be five dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule seven
hundred two, 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: five dollars,
ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, forty
dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred
dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, and the "Mr. Monopoly"
symbol corresponding to an "Annuity Prize Award" of one hundred twenty thousand
dollars per year for the winner's natural life, but not less than twenty years
or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately one million two
hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award."
Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred two 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 seven hundred two 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 thirty-seven, 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 thirty-seven, of column three of the appendix to this rule shall win
either the "Annuity Prize Award" or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award." The
amount set forth on line thirty-seven in column four represents the estimated
cost of annuity investment, at time of game development, to fund the "Annuity
Prize Award." In a pool of ten million tickets sold, mathematical reasoning
suggests that the number of tickets having the prize value and multiplier, if
any, 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 seven hundred two
shall be accomplished in a manner, which complies with the commission's rules
and procedures.
(2)
When a ticket issued in game rule number seven hundred
two 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 seven hundred two 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 seven hundred two void if it
is stolen, unissued, 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 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 seven hundred
two.
(1)
The
director shall conduct game rule number seven hundred two 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. 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 seven hundred. 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 seven
hundred two used in this rule are used solely for purposes of this rule. In
actual operation, game rule number seven hundred two and these elements may be
given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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