Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 3770:1-9 - Additional Lottery Games › Section 3770:1-9-250 - Game number two hundred fifty

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Title and term. Game number two hundred
			 fifty, the Ohio-adopted version of "Mega Millions," shall be conducted at such
			 times and for such periods as the Ohio lottery commission may determine. For
			 the purpose of this rule, "sales cycle" shall mean any such period beginning on
			 the date when ticket sales are commenced and continuing through the date
			 established by the Ohio lottery commission executive director as the date on
			 which sales agents are to make their final settlement with respect to such
			 period.
(B) General design.
(1) "Mega Millions" is a statewide joint
			 lottery game that exists based on an agreement between all participating party
			 lotteries.
(2) As used in this
			 rule, "Mega Millions" shall hereinafter be referred to as "game number two
			 hundred fifty" as it applies to statewide ticket sales in Ohio conducted by the
			 Ohio lottery commission.
(3) As
			 used in this rule, "party lotteries" shall mean the member lotteries
			 established and operated pursuant to the laws of the jurisdictions
			 participating in "Mega Millions" and any licensees authorized to sell Mega
			 Millions.
(a) Game number two hundred fifty
			 shall not be amended when one or more lottery is added or removed from
			 participating, unless the addition or removal of such party lottery shall
			 substantively change the game matrix, the play style or the method of prize
			 payments in this game.
(4) As used in this rule, "directors" shall
			 mean the chief officers of the member party lotteries or any other persons to
			 whom the directors' authority is lawfully delegated.
(5) As used in this rule, "cash grand prize"
			 shall mean the cash value of the grand prize jackpot paid in a lump sum as
			 determined by the directors or their designees . The cash grand
			 prize shall be an amount less than the annuity grand prize.
(6) As used in this rule, "annuity grand
			 prize" shall mean the annuity value of a grand prize jackpot based on the
			 investment by the Ohio lottery commission of the cash grand prize amount to
			 fund an annual installment payment stream over twenty-six years
			 as determined by the directors or their
			 designees.
(7) As used in
			 this rule, "Ohio lottery" shall mean the Ohio lottery commission.
(8) As used in this rule, "Ohio director"
			 shall mean the executive director of the Ohio lottery commission.
(9) As used in this rule, game number two
			 hundred fifty "panel or play area" shall mean the area of an official "Mega
			 Millions" ticket identified by the following two fields of play: one field of
			 five numbers consisting of one or two digits that were selected by the player
			 or the on-line gaming system computer, and a second field of one number
			 consisting of one or two digits selected by the player or the on-line gaming
			 system computer. Up to ten such panels or play areas may appear on any one
			 ticket in game number two hundred fifty. The director may change the number of
			 panels or play areas appearing on any one ticket in game number two hundred
			 fifty. Each panel shall constitute a separate
			 wager.
(10) Each ticket in
			 game number two hundred fifty shall be imprinted with one set of five unique
			 numbers from a set of numbers, one through fifty-six inclusively ("field one"),
			 and one unique number from a second set of numbers, one through forty-six,
			 inclusively ("field two"), as determined by the choice of the ticket purchaser
			 or the auto pick feature of the on-line computer system, and recorded on the
			 ticket at the time of purchase. Players may use a bet card to have the auto
			 pick feature select their numbers in either field one, field two or both
			 fields. Players may also use a bet card to manually select their numbers in
			 either field one, field two or both fields. (Bet cards are available at no cost
			 to the player and shall have no pecuniary or prize value, nor shall they
			 constitute evidence of purchase or number selections). When a player orally
			 places a "Mega Millions" wager, the player must either manually select numbers
			 from both fields or request usage of the auto pick feature to select numbers
			 from both fields. A ticket may include one or more
			 panels as described in paragraph (B)(9) of this rule.
(11) As used in this rule, game number two
			 hundred fifty winning numbers shall be randomly selected during each official
			 "Mega Millions" drawing, and shall consist of five numbers selected from a
			 field of numbers one through fifty-six, inclusively, and one number selected
			 from a second field of numbers one through forty-six, inclusively. Holders of
			 valid winning tickets for a given drawing bearing the numbers drawn in that
			 drawing, in whole or in part, shall be entitled to a prize award in accordance
			 with the applicable paragraph(s) of this rule. The prize awarded to holders of winning tickets may be
			 dependent upon whether a player has purchased the Megaplier feature.
(12) Tickets purchased in game
			 number two hundred fifty are automatically deemed by the on-line gaming system
			 to reflect payment of the grand prize jackpot in twenty-six annual
			 installments. As set forth at paragraph (J)(3) of this rule, at the time of
			 claim, any grand prize jackpot prize winner(s) who purchased their game number
			 two hundred fifty ticket(s) from an authorized Ohio lottery sales agent shall
			 have sixty calendar days from the date of the presentation for payment of their
			 valid claim to the Ohio lottery commission, to opt for a cash grand prize known
			 as the "cash option." All other prizes, other than the grand prize in game
			 number two hundred fifty, shall be paid out in a lump sum.