Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 3770:1-9 - Additional Lottery Games › Section 3770:1-9-530 - Game rule number five hundred thirty

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Title and term.
			 Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number five hundred thirty, "$1,000,000
			 Cashword"" 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 five
			 hundred thirty.
(B)
								General design.
(1)
									Game rule number
			 five hundred thirty is an extend play game and is generally known as an
			 "instant lottery."
(2)
									The holder of a valid ticket will remove the covering
			 over the "Call Letters" play area to reveal twenty letters. The player will
			 then scratch off each letter in "Puzzle 1," "Puzzle 2," "Puzzle 3" and the four
			 "Bonus Words" that matches the "Call Letters." The "Call Letters" may appear
			 more than once. "Puzzle 1" and "Puzzle 2" are played together. To win a prize
			 award, the player must uncover three or more horizontal or vertical words using
			 the "Call Letters." The player will add the number of completed "Words"
			 revealed between the two puzzles. The player will then win the corresponding
			 prize shown in the "Prize Key" for that "Puzzle 1" and "Puzzle 2" prize key. A
			 player may win only the highest prize shown in the legend for the total number
			 of completed words. Each letter appearing in the "Call Letters" play area may
			 appear more than once in the "Puzzle" play area. Each "Word" must contain at
			 least three "Call Letters." Letters combined to form a complete "Word" must
			 appear in an unbroken horizontal or vertical sequence within the "Cashword"
			 puzzle play areas. A string of letters cannot be interrupted by a space and
			 each "Word" must contain every single letter square within the space allotted.
			 A "Word" cannot be formed by connecting the letters diagonally, by reading the
			 letters from right to left or from bottom to top, or by using only a portion of
			 the letters in a complete "Word." Words within words are not eligible for a
			 prize.
(3)
									The player will add the number of completed "Words"
			 revealed in "Puzzle 3" and win the corresponding prize shown in the "Prize Key"
			 for "Puzzle 3." A player may win only the highest prize shown in the lend for
			 the total number of completed words. "Puzzle 3" is played
			 separately.
(4)
									If the holder of a valid ticket uncovers all six
			 letters in any of the "Bonus Words" by scratching the letters that match a
			 letter in the "Call Letters," the player wins the prize shown in the word's
			 "Prize Box." Each "Bonus Word" is played separately.
(5)
									The only "prize
			 values," which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number five hundred thirty
			 are: twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one
			 hundred dollars, one hundred fifty dollars, two hundred fifty dollars, three
			 hundred, four hundred, five hundred dollars, seven hundred fifty dollars, one
			 thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, fifty thousand
			 dollars, and an "Annuity Prize Award" of forty thousand dollars per year for
			 twenty-five years before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of
			 approximately five hundred thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the
			 "Annuity Prize Award." Each ticket in game rule number five hundred twenty-nine
			 shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set listed above
			 may be won. Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on any ticket in
			 game rule number five hundred thirty shall be concealed by an opaque covering,
			 which may be scratched off by the holder of the ticket to reveal the underlying
			 numbers, prize values and play symbols.