Pennsylvania Code › Title 61 - REVENUE › Part V - State Lotteries › Chapter 871 - POWERBALL › Appendix B - Chapter 871. PowerBall-Version in effect on August 28, 2005, incorporating changes from October 6, 2002 › 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. A player 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.
(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. The power play number will be selected 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.
(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.