Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:1 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 3770:1-9 - Additional Lottery Games › Section 3770:1-9-639 - Game rule number six hundred thirty-nine

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission
			 game rule number six hundred thirty-nine, "EZPLAY(TM) $2 Poker," shall be
			 conducted at such times and for such periods as the commission may determine.
			 For the purpose 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 with respect to tickets allocated to sales agents during the period in
			 game rule number six hundred thirty-nine will cease.
(B) General design.
(1) Game rule number six hundred thirty-nine
			 is a matching symbols game and is generally known as an "instant lottery." A
			 ticket for game rule six hundred thirty-nine is terminal generated.
(2) The holder of a valid ticket will have a
			 ticket containing nine "Hands" with a total of thirty-eight cards in all nine
			 "Hands," and twenty-four "Your Cards." Using the player's "Your Cards," the
			 player shall mark off the matching cards in each of the nine "Hands." Each of
			 the nine "Hands" has a corresponding prize value next to the "Hand." Each of
			 "Your Cards" and each card in the "Hands" will have one of the following
			 numbers/symbols with "2" being the lowest value number/symbol and "A" being the
			 highest level number/symbol: "2," "3," "4," "5," "6," "7," "8," "9," "10," "J,"
			 "Q," "K," or "A," and each card in "Your Cards" and each card in the "Hands"
			 will have one of the following card suits: "heart," "spade," diamond," or
			 "club." To win, using the player's "Your Cards," a player must match all cards
			 in one of the "Hands" to create one of the following complete "Hand(s):" a
			 "pair" which consists of two cards of the same number/symbol, "two pair" which
			 consists of four cards having two cards of same number/symbol twice, "three of
			 a kind" which consists of three cards having the same number/symbol, a
			 "straight" which consists of five cards having numbers/symbols in sequential
			 order, a "flush" which consists of five cards having the same card suit, a
			 "full house" which consists of five cards having two cards of the same
			 number/symbol and having three cards of the same number/symbol, "four of a
			 kind" which consists of four cards having the same number/symbol, a "straight
			 flush" which consists of five cards having numbers/symbols in sequential order
			 and also having the same card suit, and a "royal flush" which consists of five
			 cards having the same card suit and having the following numbers/symbols: "10,"
			 "J," "Q," "K," and "A." If, using the player's "Your Cards," the player matches
			 all cards in one of the "Hands" to create one of the complete "Hands" listed
			 above, the player shall win the corresponding prize value next to that "Hand."
(3) As used in this rule, "prize
			 award" shall mean one of the following monetary figures which is the total of
			 all winning prize values appearing on the ticket: two dollars, three dollars,
			 five dollars, ten dollars, thirteen dollars, fifteen dollars, twenty dollars,
			 twenty-five dollars, thirty dollars, thirty-three dollars, fifty dollars, one
			 hundred dollars, one hundred thirty dollars, five hundred dollars, twenty
			 thousand dollars. Each ticket in game rule number six hundred thirty-nine shall
			 be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set listed above may be
			 won.