Pennsylvania Code › Title 61 - REVENUE › Part V - State Lotteries › Chapter 871 - POWERBALL › Appendix C - Chapter 871. PowerBall-Version in effect on January 4, 2009, incorporating changes from August 28, 2005; and October 6, 2002 › Section 871.20 - Power play promotion

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
A Powerball ticket shall cost $1 per play. The power play
					 option may be exercised, at the discretion of the player, for an additional $1
					 per play.
(a) The power play promotion
				  shall be available in association with the Powerball game and will continue
				  until the Secretary publicly announces a suspension or termination thereof. The
				  power play promotion will be conducted in accordance with the Powerball rules
				  except that players may purchase the power play option for the chance to
				  multiply set prizes won as a result of a Powerball drawing by a number ranging
				  from 2 to 5. The Powerball grand prize will not be eligible for multiplication
				  under the power play promotion. The Secretary will on occasion announce, as a
				  special promotion, a multiplier of 10.
(b) At the time of purchasing a Powerball
				  ticket from an on-line Lottery retailer, a player may choose the power play
				  option for one additional $1 per play for each play on the Powerball ticket. If
				  a player chooses the power play promotion feature for any play on a ticket,
				  every play on that ticket must participate in the promotion.
(c) At the time of each Powerball drawing,
				  the MUSL shall conduct a power play drawing with the aid of mechanical drawing
				  equipment or any other selection methodology as authorized by the Secretary
				  under the supervision of security and an independent auditor which shall result
				  in the selection of the power play number from among the following series of
				  numbers: 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5 and 5.
(d) Powerball tickets that contain the power
				  play option and one or more plays eligible for Powerball set prizes (but not
				  the grand prize) identified in §
										871.8(a)
				  (relating to expected prize payout percentages) shall be entitled to a total
				  set prize calculated by multiplying each Powerball set prize by the power play
				  number. The second prize category power play multiplier will be fixed at a
				  minimum of 5.
(e) The prize pool
				  for power play set prizes shall consist of up to 48.5% of power play sales
				  after Powerball prize reserve accounts are funded to the amounts set by the
				  MUSL. The prize pool percentage allocated to power play set prizes shall be
				  carried forward to subsequent power play drawings if all or a portion of the
				  percentage is not required to pay the set prizes for the current power play
				  drawing.
(f) An additional 1.5% of
				  power play sales may be collected and placed in prize reserve accounts until
				  the prize reserve accounts meet the amounts designated by the MUSL. Any amount
				  remaining in prize reserve accounts at the end of the power play promotion
				  shall be carried forward to a replacement prize reserve account or expended in
				  a manner as directed by the MUSL Powerball Product Group in accordance with
				  State law.
(g) If, with respect to
				  a single Powerball drawing and associated power play drawing, the total of the
				  Powerball set prizes without the power play option and the Powerball set prizes
				  multiplied by the power play number exceeds the percentage of the prize pools
				  allocated to the set prizes, the amount needed to fund those combined set
				  prizes shall be drawn from the following sources in the following order:
(1) The amount allocated to the set prizes
				  and carried forward from previous Powerball drawings and power play drawings,
				  if any.
(2) An amount from the
				  Powerball set prize reserve account, if available, not to exceed $25,000,000
				  per drawing.