Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number nine hundred sixty-two, EZPLAY®
"Lucky Numbers Progressive" shall be conducted at such times and for such
periods as the commission may determine. For the purposes 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 nine hundred sixty-two.
(B)
General
design.
(1)
Game rule number nine hundred sixty-two is generally known
as an "instant lottery" and contains a "Progressive Jackpot"
feature.
(2)
A ticket for game rule nine hundred sixty-two is
terminal generated. Each ticket will have a "Game Play Area" that contains
thirty play spaces of numbers with a "Key Number" and a "Prize Legend." The
"Key Number" shall be determined by the price of the ticket purchased. The "Key
Number" for the five dollar game shall be five, the "Key Number" for the ten
dollar game shall be ten and the "Key Number" for the twenty dollar game shall
be twenty. The player wins by counting the circled "Lucky Numbers" in the play
area that match the "Key Number", and wins the corresponding prize shown in the
"Prize Legend." The player wins the "Progressive Jackpot" when all fifteen
circled "Lucky Numbers" are revealed. The Top Prize for this game is the
"Progressive Jackpot," the "Progressive Jackpot" starts at twenty thousand
dollars. The amount of the "Progressive Jackpot" paid will depend on the price
of the ticket purchased. If the player wins the "Progressive Jackpot," a five
dollar ticket will pay twenty-five percent of the "Progressive Jackpot," a ten
dollar ticket will pay fifty percent of the "Progressive Jackpot" and a twenty
dollar ticket will pay one hundred percent of the "Progressive Jackpot."
Players may win once per ticket.
(3)
The "prize
levels" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number nine hundred
sixty-two are: matching the "Key Number" to eight of the "Lucky Numbers,"
matching the "Key Number" to nine of the "Lucky Number," matching the "Key
Number" to ten of the "Lucky Numbers," matching the "Key Number" to eleven of
the "Lucky Numbers," matching the "Key Numbers" to twelve of the "Lucky
Numbers" matching the "Key Number" to thirteen of the "Lucky Numbers," matching
the "Key Number" to fourteen of the "Lucky Numbers," and matching the "Key
Number" to fifteen of the "Lucky Numbers."
(C)
Price of tickets.
The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game rule number nine hundred
sixty-two shall be five dollars, ten dollars, or twenty
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature, value, and number of prize
awards.
(1)
There shall be two types of prizes in game rule nine hundred
sixty-two, a "prize award" and a "Progressive Jackpot" 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, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, thirty
dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, sixty dollars, one hundred dollars, two
hundred dollars, two hundred fifty dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand
dollars, two thousand dollars, and the "Progressive Jackpot." Each ticket in
game rule number nine hundred sixty-two shall be imprinted in such a way that
prize awards from the set listed above may be won.
(E)
The number of
prize awards in any sales cycle of game rule number nine hundred sixty-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 shall be printed in accordance
with this rule using random techniques.
(1)
Combinations
winning each prize award are randomly distributed throughout all tickets
printed in any given ticket issuance.
(2)
For a five dollar
ticket, for each line in column one of appendix 1 to this rule, the player
having the prize level 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 two hundred forty thousand tickets, mathematical reasoning suggest that the
number of tickets having that prize level and multiplier, if any, in column
three should be as set forth on that same line in column five.
(3)
For a ten dollars
ticket, for each line in column one of appendix 2 to this rule, the player
having the prize level 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 two hundred forty thousand tickets, mathematical reasoning suggest that the
number of tickets having that prize level and multiplier, if any, in column
three should be as set forth on that same line in column five.
(4)
For a twenty
dollars ticket, for each line in column one of appendix 3 to this rule, the
player having the prize level 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 two hundred forty thousand tickets, mathematical reasoning suggest
that the number of tickets having that prize level and multiplier, if any, in
column three 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 nine hundred
sixty-two 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 sixty-two is sold or deemed sold in
accordance with this rule and the covering material over any of the numbers,
prize levels and play symbols has been removed, the holder shall be deemed to
have drawn the numbers, prize levels 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 nine hundred sixty-two 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 nine hundred sixty-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.
(J)
Director's conduct of game rule nine hundred
sixty-two.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number nine hundred
sixty-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 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 sixty-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 nine hundred sixty-two used in this rule
are used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule
number nine hundred sixty-two and these elements may be given names or titles
chosen by the commission.
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