Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 3770:1-9 - Additional Lottery Games › Section 3770:1-9-897 - Game rule number eight hundred ninety-seven

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								 Title and term. Ohio lottery commission game rule
			 number eight hundred ninety-seven, "$5,000,000 Cash Blowout" 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 eight hundred ninety-seven.
(B)
								
			 General design.
(1)
									 Game rule number eight hundred ninety-seven is a key
			 number match game with an instant win feature and a "multiplier" feature and is
			 generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2)
									 The holder of a
			 valid ticket will remove the covering over the entire play area to reveal six
			 "Winning Numbers," twenty-five "Your Number(s)" and twenty-five corresponding
			 prize values. If any one or more of "Your Number(s)" matches one or more of the
			 "Winning Numbers," the player wins the corresponding prize value(s) shown below
			 the matching "Your Number(s)." If the player reveals a "Moneybag" symbol in any
			 of the "Your Numbers" play spots, the player wins the corresponding prize value
			 automatically. If the player reveals a "Cash" symbol in any of the "Your
			 Numbers" play spots, the player wins one hundred dollars automatically. If the
			 player reveals a "10X" symbol in any of the "Your Numbers" play spots, the
			 player wins ten times the corresponding prize value shown automatically. If the
			 player reveals a "20X" symbol in any of the "Your Numbers" play spots, the
			 player wins twenty times the corresponding prize value shown automatically. If
			 the player reveals a "Blowout" symbol in any of the "Your Numbers" play spots,
			 the player wins all twenty-five prizes shown automatically. 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 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-five
			 chances to win on each ticket, and a player may win up to twenty-five times on
			 one ticket.
(3)
									 The only "prize values" which shall appear on a ticket
			 in game rule number eight hundred ninety-seven are: five dollars, ten dollars,
			 twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, thirty dollars, forty dollars, fifty
			 dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one
			 thousand dollars, two thousand dollars, the "TPD" symbol corresponding to a
			 prize value of five thousand five hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars, an
			 "Annuity Prize Award" of fifty thousand dollars per year for twenty 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," an
			 "Annuity Prize Award" of one hundred thousand dollars per year for twenty years
			 before taxes or the "Elected Cash-Option Prize Award" of approximately one
			 million dollars before taxes in lieu of the "Annuity Prize Award," and an
			 "Annuity Prize Award" of two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year for 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." Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on any ticket in
			 game rule number eight hundred ninety-seven 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.