Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number seven hundred twenty, "Plu$ The Money"
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
twenty.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
seven hundred twenty 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 four "Winning Numbers," and fifteen "Your
Numbers." 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 "+$50" plus $50 symbol in the "Your
Numbers," the player wins an additional fifty dollars added to the prize shown
under that symbol automatically. If the player reveals a "+$100" plus $100
symbol in the "Your Numbers," the player wins an additional one hundred dollars
added to the prize shown under that symbol automatically. There are fifteen
chances to win on each ticket, and a player can 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 twenty are: one dollar, two dollars, three
dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty five dollars, fifty
dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and
one hundred thousand dollars. Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing
on any ticket in game rule number seven hundred twenty 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 twenty 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 twenty, a "regular 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, twenty dollars, twenty five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred
dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and one hundred thousand
dollars. Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred twenty 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 twenty 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, 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. 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 line 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 twenty
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
twenty 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 twenty 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 twenty 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
twenty.
(1)
The
director shall conduct game rule number seven hundred twenty 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 and
the regulations of the director. As deemed necessary or advisable, the director
shall adopt management regulations, orders or directives to implement and
operate this lottery game and any promotions or drawings associated therewith.
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 twenty. 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
seven hundred twenty used in this rule are used solely for purposes of this
rule. In actual operation, game rule number seven hundred twenty and these
elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission
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