Ohio Admin. Code 3770:1-9-781 - Game rule number seven hundred eighty-one

(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission game rule number seven hundred eighty-one, "Cash Explosion® 10X®," 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, 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 agents are to make their final settlement with respect to tickets allocated to them during the period in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one.

(B) General design.

(1) Game rule number seven hundred eighty-one is a key number match game and is generally known as an "instant lottery," and contains an Ohio Lottery Commission TV game show feature.

(2) Holders of valid tickets will remove the opaque covering off the entire play area to reveal one "Bonus Spot," two "Winning Numbers," ten "Your Numbers," and ten corresponding prize amounts. If any one or more of "Your Numbers" match any one or more of the "Winning Numbers," the player wins the corresponding prize amount. If the player reveals a "CASH" symbol, the player wins all ten prizes shown. If the player reveals a "5X" symbol in the "Bonus Spot," the player wins five times the total prize won automatically. If the player reveals a "10X" symbol in the "Bonus Spot," the player wins ten times the total prize won automatically. If the player reveals an "ENTRY" symbol in the "Bonus Spot," the player becomes eligible for a chance to be selected in a scheduled drawing to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show." There are ten chances to win on each ticket, and the player can win up to ten times on a ticket.

(3) All holders of valid winning tickets, which reveal an "ENTRY" symbol will become eligible for a chance to be selected in a scheduled drawing to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show" by complying with the special claim, entry, receipt, validation and drawing requirements of the Ohio lottery commission's current game show drawing procedures, and with all other applicable requirements of the rules of the commission, the regulations of the director and the procedures established by the director.

(4) The only "prize values," which will appear on a ticket in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one are: an "ENTRY" ticket symbol, a "CASH" symbol, one dollar, two dollars, three dollars, four dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars and ten thousand dollars. Numbers, prize values and play symbols appearing on any ticket in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one will be concealed by an opaque covering, which may be scratched off by the holder of the ticket to reveal the underlying numbers, prize values and play symbols.

(C) Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one will be two dollars.

(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards.

(1) The type of prize to be awarded in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one will be the prize awards. Other types of prizes, "game show prizes," will be awarded in each Ohio Lottery TV game show.

(2) As used in this rule, "prize award" will mean an "ENTRY" as described in paragraph (D) (2) (a) of this rule, or one of the following monetary amounts: two dollars, three dollars, four dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars.

(a) Each holder of a valid ticket on which an "ENTRY" ticket symbol is revealed, will become eligible for a chance to be selected in a scheduled drawing to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show."

(3) Each eligible holder of an "ENTRY" ticket whose name is drawn for participation in the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show" will be subject to the rules and regulations established by the director in the Ohio lottery commission's current game show procedures. (The director will have the discretion to establish bonus prizes and to modify prize amounts awarded to contestants for promotional purposes.)

(4) The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game rule number seven hundred eighty-one will depend upon the number of tickets sold during that cycle. However, distribution and availability for public purchase may be affected by, but not limited to, circumstances such as stolen, defective, missing, damaged, promotional, returned or partial reordered tickets. Tickets will be printed in accordance with this rule using random techniques.

(a) Combinations winning each prize award are randomly distributed throughout all tickets printed in any given ticket issuance.

(5) For each line in column one of the appendix to this rule, the player having the prize value and multiplier, if any, on that same line in column three will win the prize award on the same line in column four; and in a pool of ten million tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having that prize value and multiplier, if any, on a given line in column three should be as set forth on that same line in column five.

(E) Tickets sold. Chances of winning and the number of winning tickets are established at the time of printing and will change as prizes are won.

(F) Frequency of prize drawings.

(1) Random imprinting of prize awards on all tickets issued in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one will be accomplished in a manner that complies with the commission's rules and procedures.

(2) When a ticket issued in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one is sold or deemed sold in accordance with this rule and the covering material over any of the play symbols and prize symbol has been removed, the holder will be deemed to have drawn the play symbols and prize symbols on that ticket, which determine whether the holder is entitled to a prize award. All prize awards will be deemed announced no later than the last day of the sales cycle of game rule number seven hundred eighty-one in which the ticket was sold.

(3) Drawings conducted for the purposes of determining who will become entitled to appear as a contestant on the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show" and any other drawings conducted in connection with the "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show" will comply with the rules and regulations of the commission governing "prize drawings" and special lottery drawings as set forth in rules 3770:1-6-05 and 3770:1-6-06 of the Administrative Code, as applicable.

(4) The "Ohio Lottery Commission TV Game Show, Cash Explosion® Game Show" will be held on dates determined and announced by the director.

(G) Special claim, entry, receipt and validation procedures. The director will establish special claim, entry, receipt and validation procedures, including procedures for validation by sales agents of tickets winning prize awards, which are to be paid by sales agents in accordance with commission rules. Prize awards will be claimed within the time limits set forth by commission rules.

(H) Validity of tickets.

(1) A mechanical error in printing prize awards, symbols, words or other numbers on a ticket will not automatically invalidate that ticket. To the extent feasible, the director will establish procedures by which the holder of any ticket on which information is incorrectly printed due to mechanical malfunction may be advised of correct information for the ticket. If it is not technically feasible to recover the information from a mechanically misprinted ticket, the director may declare the ticket void and the holder will be entitled to a return of the ticket price or a replacement ticket of comparable price.

(2) In addition to, but not in limitation of, all other power and authority conferred on the director by the commission's rules, the director may declare a ticket in game rule number seven hundred eighty-one void if it is stolen, deactivated, not sold or deemed not sold in accordance with commission rules; if it is illegible, mutilated, altered, counterfeit, misregistered, reconstituted, miscut, defective, printed or produced in error or incomplete; if the ticket fails any of the validation tests or procedures established by the director; or if the ticket is obtained in violation of commission rules, including, but not limited to, by way of prize discounting prohibited under rule 3770-3-01 of the Administrative Code. The commission's liability and responsibility for a ticket declared void, if any, is limited to refund of the retail sales price of the ticket or issuance of a replacement ticket of comparable price.

(I) Director's conduct of game rule number seven hundred eighty-one.

(1) The director will conduct game rule number seven hundred eighty-one and any promotions or drawings associated therewith in a manner consistent with the Lottery Act and the rules of the commission including, without limitation, this rule. The director will inform the public of the provisions of this rule and the procedures established pursuant hereto, which affect the play of game rule number seven hundred eighty-one. The director reserves the right to declare any instant game as unavailable for sale at any time to maintain game integrity and accountability.

(2) Names and definitions of elements of game rule number seven hundred eighty-one used in this rule are to be considered generic terms used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number seven hundred eighty-one and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.

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Ohio Admin. Code 3770:1-9-781

Effective: 1/21/2023
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 3770.03
Rule Amplifies: 3770.01, 3770.02, 3770.03, 3770.04, 3770.05, 3770.06, 3770.07, 3770.08