Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 3770:1-7 - Conduct of Specific Games › Section 3770:1-7-25 - Ohio lottery commission game number twenty-five

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission
			 game number twenty-five, "Pick 4," 
								will be conducted at such times and for such
			 periods as the commission may determine. For the purpose of this rule, "sales
			 cycle" 
								will mean any such period beginning on the date when
			 ticket sales are commenced, and continuing through the date on which sales are
			 terminated by the commission.
(B)
			 General design.
(1) Game number twenty-five
			 will be a number-match lottery game.
(2) Each ticket in game number twenty-five
			 will be
			 imprinted with a four-digit number which 
									will be
			 determined by the choice of the ticket purchaser or the auto pick feature of
			 the 
									lottery gaming system, and recorded on the ticket at
			 the time of purchase.
(3) At such
			 times as determined by the director, drawings will be conducted at which four
			 one-digit numbers will be selected at random from the four sets of all
			 one-digit numbers. Holders of valid winning tickets for a given drawing bearing
			 the numbers drawn in that drawing in specified combinations of positions, as
			 determined by the purchaser or the auto pick feature, and recorded on the
			 ticket at the time of purchase, will be entitled to a prize award in accordance with
			 this rule.
(4) Purchasers of
			 tickets in game number twenty-five may purchase, at their option, tickets
			 offering the following winning possibilities for any drawing:
(a) A four-digit number specified by the
			 purchaser to match, in exact order, the four one-digit numbers selected in the
			 applicable drawing, hereinafter referred to as "straight bet."
(b) A four-digit number with three digits the
			 same, specified by the purchaser, to match in any order the four one-digit
			 numbers selected in the applicable drawing, hereinafter referred to as
			 "four-way box bet."
(c) A
			 four-digit number with two sets of matching digits, specified by the purchaser,
			 to match in any order the four one-digit numbers selected in the applicable
			 drawing, hereinafter referred to as "six-way box bet."
(d) A four-digit number with two digits the
			 same, specified by the purchaser, to match in any order the four one-digit
			 numbers selected in the applicable drawing, hereinafter referred to as
			 "twelve-way box bet."
(e) A
			 four-digit number, with no digits repeated, specified by the purchaser, to
			 match in any order the four one-digit numbers selected in the applicable
			 drawing, hereinafter referred to as "twenty-four-way box bet."
(f) A four-digit number specified by the
			 purchaser in accordance with paragraphs (B)(4)(a) and (B)(4)(b); paragraphs
			 (B)(4)(a) and (B)(4)(c); paragraphs (B)(4)(a) and (B)(4)(d); or paragraphs
			 (B)(4)(a) and (B)(4)(e) of this rule, hereinafter referred to as "backup
			 bet."
(5) A drawing of
			 numbers in another commission game may serve as the drawing in this
			 game.