Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission
Chapter 3770:1-9 - Additional Lottery Games
Section 3770:1-9-909 - Game rule number nine hundred nine
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3770:1-9-909
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission game rule number nine hundred nine, EZ PLAY "$100 Karat," 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 with respect to tickets allocated to sales agents during the period in game rule number nine hundred nine will cease.
(B) General design.
(1)
Game rule number nine hundred nine is generally known as an "instant lottery."
A ticket for game rule nine hundred nine is terminal generated. Each ticket
will have one (1) game per ticket. Each ticket consists of four (4) rows of
"Your Spins" consisting of three (3) symbols each, six rows of "Winning Spins"
consisting of three (3) symbols each and six corresponding prize values. The
player wins by matching any one or more of the "Your Spins" rows to any one or
more of the "Winning Spins" rows in exact order. Play symbols include "Diamond"
symbols, "Horseshoe" symbols, the number "Seven," "Clover" symbols, "Cherry"
symbols, "Heart" symbols and "Star" symbols. The player wins the prize amount
in the "Prize Legend" for the matched "Winning Spins."
(2)
The only "prize
values" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number nine hundred nine
are one dollar, two dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars and one
hundred dollars.
(C) Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game rule number nine hundred nine shall be one dollar.
(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be one type of prize in game rule number
nine hundred nine called a "regular 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: one dollar, two
dollars, three dollars, ten dollars, eleven dollars, twelve dollars, twenty
dollars, twenty-one dollars, twenty-two dollars, fifty dollars, fifty-one
dollars, fifty-two dollars and one hundred dollars. Each ticket in game rule
number nine hundred nine shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards
from the set listed above may be won.
(a)
Holder of a
valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Horseshoe" symbol shall win a regular prize award of one hundred
dollars;
(b)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one number "Seven," and one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart" symbol shall win a regular
prize award of fifty-two dollars;
(c)
Holder of a
valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one number "Seven," and one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Star" symbol shall win a regular prize award of fifty-one
dollars;
(d)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one number "Seven" shall win a regular
prize award of fifty dollars;
(e)
Holder of a
valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Clover" symbol, and one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Heart" symbol shall win a regular prize award of twenty-two
dollars;
(f)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Clover" symbol, and one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbol shall win a regular
prize award of twenty-one dollars;
(g)
Holder of a
valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Clover" symbol shall win a regular prize award of twenty
dollars;
(h)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Cherry" symbol, and one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart" symbol shall win a regular
prize award of twelve dollars;
(i)
Holder of a
valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Cherry" symbol, and one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Star" symbol shall win a regular prize award of eleven dollars;
(j)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two
"Diamond" symbols and one "Cherry" symbol shall win a regular prize award of
ten dollars;
(k)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbol, and one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart" symbol shall win a regular
prize award of three dollars;
(l)
Holder of a
valid winning ticket on which one of "Your Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Heart" symbol shall win a regular prize award of two dollars;
and
(m)
Holder of a valid winning ticket on which one of "Your
Spins" reveals two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbol shall win a regular
prize award of one dollar.
(E) Number of prize awards. The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game rule number nine hundred nine will depend upon the number of tickets sold during that cycle. 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 the prize pool; and
(2)
Mathematical
reasoning indicates that the number of winning tickets per two hundred forty
thousand tickets sold in the following prize categories should be as
follows:
(a)
Ten thousand two hundred tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star"
symbol is revealed in one of "Your Spins" to win one dollar;
(b)
Eight thousand
tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart" symbol is revealed in
one of "Your Spins" to win two dollars;
(c)
Four thousand
tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbols is revealed, and
two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart" symbol is revealed to win three
dollars;
(d)
Three thousand tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Cherry" symbol is revealed to win ten dollars;
(e)
Two thousand
five hundred tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one "Cherry" symbol is
revealed, and two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbol is revealed to win
eleven dollars;
(f)
Two thousand tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Cherry" symbol is revealed, and two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart"
symbol is revealed to win twelve dollars;
(g)
Six hundred
fifty tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one "Clover" symbol is
revealed to win twenty dollars;
(h)
Five hundred
tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one "Clover" symbol is revealed, and
two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbol is revealed to win twenty-one
dollars;
(i)
Five hundred tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols
and one "Clover" symbol is revealed, and two "Diamond" symbols and one "Heart"
symbol is revealed to win twenty-two dollars;
(j)
One hundred
fifty tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one number "Seven" is revealed
to win fifty dollars;
(k)
One hundred tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and
one number "Seven," and two "Diamond" symbols and one "Star" symbol is revealed
to win fifty-one dollars;
(l)
One hundred
tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and one number "Seven" symbol, and two
"Diamond" symbols and one "Heart" symbol is revealed to win fifty-two dollars;
and
(m)
Two hundred tickets on which two "Diamond" symbols and
one "Horseshoe" symbol is revealed to one hundred dollars.
(F) Tickets sold. Chances of winning and the number of winning tickets are established at the start of the game number nine hundred nine and at the time a ticket is purchased.
(G) Frequency of prize drawings.
(1)
Random imprinting of prize awards on all tickets
issued in game rule number nine hundred nine shall be accomplished in a manner
which complies with the commission's rules and procedures.
(2)
When a ticket
issued in game rule number nine hundred nine is sold or deemed sold in
accordance with this rule, the holder shall be deemed to have drawn the prize
values and play symbol on that ticket which determine whether the holder is
entitled to a regular prize award. A regular prize award shall be deemed
announced on the date a ticket is purchased.
(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. For purposes of game rule nine hundred nine, the close date for a ticket that is sold shall be the date the ticket is purchased. Prize awards shall be claimed within one hundred eighty days of the date that a ticket is purchased.
(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 nine hundred nine void if it is stolen, unissued, not sold or
deemed not sold in accordance with commission rules; if it is illegible,
mutilated, altered, counterfeit, 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. 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.
(3)
A ticket may not be canceled once the ticket is
printed by the lottery terminal even if such ticket is printed in error.
(J) Director's conduct of game rule number nine hundred nine.
(1)
The
director shall conduct game rule number nine hundred nine 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 and the
regulations of the director. As deemed necessary or advisable, the director
shall adopt management regulations, orders or directives to implement and
operate this lottery game and any promotions or drawings associated therewith.
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 nine hundred nine. 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
nine hundred nine used in this rule are to be considered generic terms used
solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number nine
hundred nine and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the
commission.
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