Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number seven hundred ninety-eight, "Fistful
of $500," 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 ninety-eight.
(B)
General
design.
(1)
Game rule number seven hundred ninety-eight 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," fifteen "Your Numbers" and fifteen corresponding prize
amounts. If any one or more of "Your Numbers" match any of the "Winning
Numbers," the player wins the corresponding prize amount automatically. If the
player reveals a "Money Roll" symbol, the player wins the corresponding prize
amount automatically. If the player reveals a "$50 Burst" symbol, the player
wins fifty dollars automatically. If the player reveals a "Fist of Money"
symbol, the player wins all fifteen prizes shown automatically. There are
fifteen chances to win on each ticket, and a player may 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 ninety-eight are: one dollar, two dollars,
five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars,
five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and one
hundred thousand dollars. Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on
any ticket in game rule number seven hundred ninety-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 ninety-eight shall be five dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature
and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule number
seven hundred ninety-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: five dollars,
ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred
dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and one hundred thousand
dollars. Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred ninety-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 ninety-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; 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 the same line in column four; and in a pool of six million tickets sold,
mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having that prize
value and multiplier in column three, if any, 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 ninety-eight 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
ninety-eight 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
ninety-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)
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.
(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 ninety-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
ninety-eight.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number seven
hundred ninety-eight, 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 ninety-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 ninety-eight 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 ninety-eight and
these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.
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