Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number seven hundred forty, "Bingo Times 50"
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
forty one.
(B)
General design
(1)
Game rule seven
hundred forty is an extended play game and is generally know as an "instant
lottery."
(2)
Holder of a valid ticket will remove the covering off
the entire play area on the front of the ticket to reveal 33 "Caller's Card"
numbers, ten "Bonus Numbers," and nine "Cards." If the player matches the
"Bingo Numbers" from the "Caller's Card" and reveals a complete vertical,
horizontal, or diagonal line, the player wins the corresponding prize amount
shown. If the player matches the "Bingo Numbers" from the "Caller's Card" in
all four corners, the player wins the corresponding prize amount shown. If the
player matches the "Bingo Numbers" from the "Caller's Card" to make a complete
"X," eight numbers including the "Free" spaces, the player wins the
corresponding prize amount shown. The player will remove the covering off the
"Bonus Box" to multiply the total prize shown by "1X," "2X," "3X," "4X," "5X,"
"10X," "25X," or "50X." The player may win more than one prize on the ticket,
but cannot win more than one prize on each "Card" inclusive. Only the highest
winning prize of each "Card" will be paid. The player will then remove the
covering off the entire play area on the backside of the ticket to reveal three
"Bonus Games" which are played separately. Each game has a "Winning Number" and
five "Your Numbers." If the player matches one or more "Your Numbers" with the
"Winning Number," in the same "Bonus Game," the player wins the prize amount
shown below the matching number(s). The games on the front and back of the
ticket are played separately. There are twenty-four chances to win on each
ticket, and a player may win up to twenty-two times on one
ticket.
(3)
The only "prize values," which shall appear on a ticket
in game rule number seven hundred forty are: five dollars, ten dollars, twenty
dollars, thirty dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two
hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, and fifty thousand
dollars.
(C)
Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the
commission in game rule number seven hundred forty 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 forty 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, twenty dollars, thirty dollars, forty
dollars, fifty dollars, seventy-five dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred
dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred dollars, ten thousand
dollars, fifty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars, and five hundred
thousand dollars. Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred forty 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 forty 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 reprinted 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 players having the prize value and
multiplier, if any, on that same line in column three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve shall win the prize award on the same line
in column fourteen; and in a pool of six million tickets sold, mathematical
reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having that prize value and
multiplier, if any, should be as set forth on that same line in column
fifteen.
(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 forty
shall be accomplished in a manner that complies with the commission's rules and
procedures.
(2)
When a ticket issued in game rule number seven hundred
forty 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 forty 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 forty 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; 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
forty.
(1)
The
director shall conduct game rule number seven hundred forty, 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 seven
hundred forty. 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 forty used in this rule are to be considered generic terms used
solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number seen
hundred forty and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the
commission.
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