Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number nine hundred sixty-five, EZPLAY®
"PAC-MAN"® 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-five.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
nine hundred sixty-five is generally known as an "instant
lottery".
(2)
A ticket for game rule nine hundred sixty-five is
terminal generated. Each ticket will have a "Game Play Area" that contains a
nine-symbol play area, arranged in a three by three grid.The player will reveal
three like symbols and win the amount shown i the prize legend.
(3)
The "prize
levels" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number nine hundred
sixty-five are: matching three "Key," matching three "Bell, " matching three
"Orange," matching three "Apple," matching three "Cherry," and matching three
"Ghost."
(C)
Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the
commission in game rule number nine hundred sixty-five shall be two
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature, value and number of prize
awards.
(1)
There shall be two types of prizes in game rule nine hundred
sixty-five, 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: two dollars, ten
dollars, twenty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, and ten
thousand dollars. Each ticket in game rule number nine hundred sixty-five 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-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 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 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.
(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-five 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-five is sold or deemed sold in
accordance with this rule, 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-five 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-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 nine hundred
sixty-five.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number nine hundred
sixty-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 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-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 nine hundred sixty-five used in this rule
are used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule
number nine hundred sixty-five and these elements may be given names or titles
chosen by the commission.
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