Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number seven hundred twenty-one,
"$300,000,000 Extreme Cash" will be conducted at such times and for such
periods as the commission may determine. For the purposes 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-five.
(B)
General
design.
(1)
Game
rule number seven hundred eighty-five is a reveal symbol and 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
"Mystery Bonus" spots, ten "Winning Numbers," twenty-five "Your Numbers," and
twenty-five corresponding prize amounts. If the player reveals a prize amount
in any of the "Mystery Bonus" spots, the player wins that prize amount
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(s) automatically. If the player reveals a "10X" symbol, the player wins
ten times the prize shown. If the player reveals a "20X" symbol, the player
wins twenty times the prize shown. If the player reveals a "50X" symbol, the
player wins fifty times the prize shown. If the player reveals a "200X" symbol,
the player wins two hundred times the prize shown. It the player reveals a
"Money Bag" symbol, the player wins all twenty-five prizes shown automatically.
There are twenty-nine chances to win on each ticket, and a player can win up to
twenty-nine times on one ticket.
(3)
The only "Prize
Values," which will appear on a ticket in game rule seven hundred eighty-five
are: ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty five dollars, thirty dollars, fifty
dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five
thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars, one hundred
thousand dollars and an "Annuity Prize Award" of two hundred thousand dollars
per year for twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize
Award" of approximately two million 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 eighty-five 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-five will be thirty
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature and value of prize awards.
(1)
There will be one
type of prize in game rule seven hundred eighty-five, a "regular prize
award."
(2)
As used in this rule, "prize award" will mean one of
the following monetary figures, which is the total of all winning prize values
appearing on the ticket: fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred
dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars,
one hundred thousand dollars, and an "Annuity Prize Award" of two hundred
thousand dollars per year for twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected
Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately two million five hundred thousand
dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." Each ticket in game
rule number seven hundred eighty-five will 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 eighty-five 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 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 fifty seven, the player having the prize value and
multiplier, if any, on that same line in columns three will win the prize award
on that same line in column four. A player having the prize value set forth on
line fifty seven of column three of the appendix to this rule will win either
the "Annuity Prize Award" or the "Elected Cash Option Prize Award." The amounts
set forth on line fifty seven of column four of the appendix to this rule
represent the estimated cost of annuity investment, at the time of game
development, to fund the "Annuity Prize Award." In a pool of thirteen 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
eighty-five will 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 eighty-five 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 will 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
will be deemed announced no later than the last day of the sales cycle of game
rule number seven hundred eighty-five in which the ticket was
sold.
(H)
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.
(I)
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-five
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
eighty-five.
(1)
The director will conduct game rule number seven
hundred eighty-five 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-five. 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-five 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-five and these
elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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