Pennsylvania Code › Title 61 - REVENUE › Part V - State Lotteries › Chapter 871 - POWERBALL › Section 871.20 - Power play promotion

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(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 1 to 5. The Powerball grand prize will not be eligible
				for multiplication under the power play promotion.
(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 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: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 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.
(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.