Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number seven hundred twenty-eight,
"$1,000,000 Cash Blowout," 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 seven hundred twenty-eight.
(B)
General
design.
(1)
Game rule number seven hundred twenty-eight is a key number
match game and is generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2)
Holder of valid
ticket will remove the covering over the entire play area to reveal six
"Winning Numbers" and twenty "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 "10X" symbol,
the player wins ten times the prize shown. If the players reveals a "25X"
symbol, the player wins twenty-five times the prize shown. If the player
reveals a "50X" symbol, the player wins fifty times the prize
shown.
(3)
The only "prize values," which shall appear on a ticket
in game rule number seven hundred twenty-eight 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 twenty-eight 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-eight shall be ten dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule number
seven hundred twenty-eight 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" of
approximately five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the
"Annuity Prize Award." Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred
twenty-eight 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-eight 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.
(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 that same line in column four. A player having the prize set forth on line
ninety-five 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-five of column four of the appendix to this rule
represents the estimated cost of annuity investment, at the 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 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-eight 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-eight is sold or deemed sold in
accordance with this rule and the covering material over any of the prize
values and play symbols has been removed, the holder shall be deemed to have
drawn the prize values and play symbols on that ticket which determine whether
the holder is entitled to a prize award. All prize award shall be deemed
announced no later than the last day of the sales cycle of game rule number
seven hundred twenty-eight 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-eight 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
twenty-eight.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number seven
hundred twenty-eight 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
twenty-eight. 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 twentyeight used in this rule are to be used solely for purposes
of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number seven hundred twenty-eight
and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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