Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number seven hundred fifteen, "Ohio Bonus
Cash" 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
fifteen.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
seven hundred fifteen 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 a "$50 Bonus Spot," "$100 Bonus Spot," "$250
Bonus Spot", six "Winning Numbers," twenty "Your Numbers", and twenty
corresponding prize amounts. If the player reveals a "$50 Burst" symbol in the
"$50 Bonus Spot," the player wins fifty dollars automatically. If the player
reveals a "$100 Burst" symbol in the "$100 Bonus Spot," the player wins one
hundred dollars automatically. If the player reveals a "$250 Burst" symbol in
the "$250 Bonus Spot," the player wins two hundred fifty 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 "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 "Moneybag"
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 seven hundred
fifteen 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 seven
hundred fifteen 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 fifteen shall be ten dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule seven
hundred fifteen, 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" of
approximately five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the
"Annuity Prize Award." Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred fifteen
shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set listed above
may be won.
(E)
The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game
rule number seven hundred fifteen 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 ninety-one, 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
ninety-one 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 ninety-one 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 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 seven hundred fifteen
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
fifteen 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 fifteen 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 fifteen 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 seven hundred
fifteen.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number seven hundred
fifteen 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 fifteen. 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 fifteen used in this rule
are used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule
number seven hundred fifteen and these elements may be given names or titles
chosen by the commission.
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