Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
Title and term.
Ohio lottery commission game rule number nine hundred sixty-six, "EZPLAY®"
"BATTLESHIPT 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-six.
(B)
General design.
(1)
Game rule number
nine hundred sixty-six is a symbol match game and is generally known as an
"instant lottery."
(2)
A ticket for game rule nine hundred sixty-six is
terminal generated. Each ticket will have a "Torpedo Room" that contains a grid
made up of one hundred "coordinates." The player then receives thirty-three
coordinates to match on the "Target Grid" in the "Torpedo Room." If the player
completely reveals any of the ships shown on the "Legend," that ship is sunk,
and the player wins the prize shown for that ship.
(3)
The "prize
values" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number nine hundred
sixty-six are: two dollars, four dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty
dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars.
There are fifteen different ways to win based on combining up to five of the
"prize values."
(C)
Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the
commission in game rule number nine hundred sixty-six shall be two
dollars.
(D)
Structure, nature, and value of prize awards.
(1)
There shall be
one type of prize in game rule nine hundred sixty-six 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: two dollars, four dollars, six dollars, ten dollars,
twelve dollars, fourteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-four dollars, thirty
dollars, fifty dollars, seventy dollars, eighty dollars, one thousand dollars,
five thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars. Each ticket in game rule
number nine hundred sixty-six 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 nine
hundred sixty-six 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 appendix one 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 sold, mathematical
reasoning suggests 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-six shall be accomplished in a manner that complies with the commission's
rules and procedures.
(2)
When a ticket issued in game rule number nine hundred
sixty-six is sold or deemed sold in accordance with this rule, 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 nine hundred sixty-six 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-six 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-six.
(1)
The director shall conduct game rule number nine hundred
sixty-six 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-six. 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-six used in this rule
are used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule
number nine hundred sixty-six and these elements may be given names or titles
chosen by the commission.
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