Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 3770:1-9 - Additional Lottery Games › Section 3770:1-9-308 - Game rule number three hundred eight

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Title and term.
			 Ohio lottery commission game rule number three hundred eight, "$250,000 A Year
			 For Life" 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
			 three hundred eight.
(B)
								General design.
(1)
									Game rule number
			 three hundred eight is a key number match game and is generally known as an
			 "instant lottery."
(2)
									Holders of valid tickets will remove the covering over
			 the entire play area to reveal six "Winning Numbers," twenty "Your Numbers" and
			 twenty corresponding prize amounts. If the player matches one or more of the
			 "Winning Numbers" to one or more of "Your Numbers," the player wins the
			 corresponding prize amount(s). If the player reveals a "Star" symbol, the
			 player wins the prize automatically. If the player reveals a "Moneybag" symbol,
			 the player wins all twenty prizes automatically. If the player reveals a "Life"
			 symbol, the player wins two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year for the
			 winner's natural life, but not less than twenty years, before taxes or the
			 "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately two million five hundred
			 thousand dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." If the
			 player matches any of "Your Numbers" to one of the "Winning Numbers" and the
			 corresponding prize value revealed is a "TPD" symbol, the player wins five
			 thousand five hundred dollars automatically, and upon the filing of a valid
			 claim at an Ohio lottery commission office, shall automatically be entered into
			 the Top Prize Drawing ("TPD") for a chance to win an "Annuity Prize Award" of
			 two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year for the winner's natural life, but
			 not less than twenty years, before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize
			 Award" of approximately two million five hundred thousand dollars before taxes
			 in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award." The Top Prize Drawing shall be conducted
			 in accordance with Ohio lottery rules and procedures established and approved
			 by the director. There are twenty chances to win on each ticket, and a player
			 may win up to twenty times on one ticket.
(3)
									The only "prize
			 values" which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number three hundred eight
			 are: five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five
			 dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred
			 dollars, three hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, seven hundred fifty
			 dollars, one thousand dollars, the "TPD" symbol corresponding to a prize value
			 of five thousand five hundred dollars, fifteen thousand dollars, one hundred
			 fifty thousand dollars and the "Life" symbol corresponding to a prize value of
			 two million five hundred thousand dollars or two hundred fifty thousand dollars
			 for per year for the winner's natural life, but not less than twenty years.
			 Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on any ticket in game rule
			 number three hundred eight 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.