Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number seven hundred eighty-two, "Cash
Explosion®25X," will be conducted at such times and for such periods as the
commission may determine. For the purpose of this rule, "sales cycle" will 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 eighty-two.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
seven hundred eighty-two is a key number match game and is generally known as
an "instant lottery," and contains an Ohio lottery commission TV game show
feature.
(2)
Holders of valid tickets will remove the opaque
covering off the entire play area to reveal one "Bonus Spot," four "Winning
Numbers," fifteen "Your Numbers," and fifteen corresponding prize amounts. If
any one or more of "Your Numbers" match any one or more of the "Winning
Numbers," the player wins the corresponding prize amount(s). If the player
reveals a "STAR" symbol, the player wins that prize automatically. If the
player reveals a "5X" symbol in the "Bonus Spot," the player wins five times
the total prize won automatically. If the player reveals a "10X" symbol in the
"Bonus Spot," the player wins ten times the total prize won automatically. If
the player reveals a "25X" symbol in the "Bonus Spot," the player wins
twenty-five times the total prize won automatically. If the player reveals an
"ENTRY" symbol in the "Bonus Spot," the player becomes eligible for a chance to
be selected in a scheduled drawing to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio
Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show." There are
fifteen chances to win on each ticket, and the player can win up to fifteen
times on a ticket.
(3)
All holders of valid winning tickets, which reveal an
"ENTRY" symbol will become eligible for a chance to be selected in a scheduled
drawing to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show,
Cash Explosion® Game Show" by complying with the special claim, entry,
receipt, validation and drawing requirements of the Ohio lottery commission's
current game show drawing procedures, and with all other applicable
requirements of the rules of the commission, the regulations of the director
and the procedures established by the director.
(4)
The only "prize
values," which will appear on a ticket in game rule number seven hundred
eighty-two are: an "ENTRY" ticket symbol, a "STAR" symbol, one dollar, two
dollars, three dollars, four dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty
dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred
dollars, one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars,
fifty thousand dollars, and one hundred fifty thousand dollars. Numbers, prize
values and play symbols appearing on any ticket in game rule number seven
hundred eighty-two will 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 eighty-two will be five dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
The type of prize to be awarded in game rule number
seven hundred eighty-two will be the prize awards. Other types of prizes, "game
show prizes," will be awarded in each Ohio Lottery TV game
show.
(2)
As used in this rule, "prize award" will mean an
"ENTRY" as described in paragraph (D) (2) (a) of this rule, or one of the
following monetary amounts: five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars,
twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars,
one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, fifty
thousand dollars, and one hundred fifty thousand dollars.
(a)
Each holder of a
valid ticket on which three of the prize values revealed are "ENTRY" ticket
symbols will become eligible for a chance to be selected in a scheduled drawing
to appear as a contestant on The Ohio Lottery TV game show, Cash Explosion®
Game Show.
(3)
Each eligible holder of an "ENTRY" ticket whose name is
drawn for participation in the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash
Explosion® Game Show" will be subject to the rules and regulations
established by the director in the Ohio lottery commission's current game show
procedures. (The director will have the discretion to establish bonus prizes
and to modify prize amounts awarded to contestants for promotional
purposes.)
(4)
The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game
rule number seven hundred eighty-two 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 will be printed in accordance with this rule using random
techniques.
(a)
Combinations winning each prize award are randomly
distributed throughout all tickets printed in any given ticket
issuance.
(5)
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 will win the prize award on the same line in column four;
and in a pool of eight million tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests
that the number of tickets having that prize value and multiplier, if any, on a
given line in column three should be as set forth on that same line in column
five.
(E)
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.
(F)
Frequency of prize drawings.
(1)
Random imprinting
of prize awards on all tickets issued in game rule number seven hundred
eighty-two will 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
eighty-two is sold or deemed sold in accordance with this rule and the covering
material over any of the play symbols and prize symbol has been removed, the
holder will be deemed to have drawn the play symbols and prize symbols on that
ticket, which determine whether the holder is entitled to a prize award. All
prize awards will be deemed announced no later than the last day of the sales
cycle of game rule number seven hundred eighty-two in which the ticket was
sold.
(3)
Drawings conducted for the purposes of determining who
will become entitled to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio Lottery Commission
TV game show, Cash Explosion® Game Show" and any other drawings conducted
in connection with a TV game show will comply with the rules and regulations of
the commission governing "prize drawings" and special lottery drawings as set
forth in rules
3770:1-6-05 and
3770:1-6-06 of the
Administrative Code, as applicable.
(4)
An Ohio Lottery
TV game show will be held on dates determined and announced by the
director.
(G)
Special claim, entry, receipt and validation
procedures. The director will 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 will be claimed within the time
limits set forth by commission rules.
(H)
Validity of
tickets.
(1)
A
mechanical error in printing prize awards, symbols, words or other numbers on a
ticket will not automatically invalidate that ticket. To the extent feasible,
the director will 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 will 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 eighty-two 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.
(I)
Director's conduct of game rule number seven hundred
eighty-two.
(1)
The director will conduct game rule number seven hundred
eighty-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 will 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 eighty-two. 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 eighty-two used in
this rule are to be considered generic terms used solely for purposes of this
rule. In actual operation, game rule number seven hundred eighty-two and these
elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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