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Ohio Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 12, 2021) |
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3770:1 Lottery Commission |
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Chapter3770:1-9. Additional Lottery Games |
3770:1-9-340. Game rule number three hundred forty
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(A) Title and term. Ohio lottery commission Game rule number three hundred forty, "Gold Bar Bingo!," 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 agents are to make their final settlement with respect to tickets allocated to them during the period in Game rule number three hundred forty.
(B) General design.
(1) Game rule number three hundred forty is an extended play game and is generally known as an "instant lottery."
(2) Each valid ticket will consist of a "Gold Bar Multiplier", where the player will multiply prizes won by 1X, 2X, 4X, 5X, or 10X. The valid ticket will also contain four separate "Cards" ("Card 1", "Card 2," "Card 3," and "Card 4") and each card will have twenty-four numbered spaces and one "Free" space in the center. The numbers and "Free" space will be contained within five columns under the letters "B," "I," "N," "G" and "O." The "Free" space will be located in the center of the bingo card under the "N" column. The player will remove the covering over the "Start" section to reveal a "Bingo Number." The player will then scratch the corresponding number in the same "Card" to reveal the next "Bingo Number." The player will continue to play until an "End" symbol is revealed. The player will then repeat the process for the remaining three "Cards." The player wins if any of the uncovered number spaces form the following: a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line including five matched numbers, four matched numbers with the "Free" space, two complete diagonal lines forming an "X" pattern including eight matched numbers and the "Free" space in the middle, or matching numbers in all four corners. Each card on each ticket is played separately. The player may win a prize for each of the four cards on a ticket and the "Bonus" section. The player may only win the highest winning prize on each card. On the back of each valid ticket, players will reveal play area with ten prize values. If player reveals a "Gold Bar" symbol, they win the prize shown automatically. If player reveals a "Pot of Gold" symbol, the player wins all ten prizes shown automatically.
(3) As used in this rule, "prize value" shall mean one of the following monetary figures which is the total of all winning prize values appearing on the ticket: one dollar, two dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred fifty dollars, five hundred dollars, five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, thirty thousand dollars and three hundred thousand dollars. Each ticket in Game rule number three hundred forty shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set listed above may be won.
(C) Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the commission in Game rule number three hundred forty shall be five dollars.
(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards.
(1) There shall be one type of prize in Game rule number three hundred forty called a "regular prize award."
(2) The only "prize award" which shall appear on a ticket in Game rule number three hundred forty are as follows: five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred fifty dollars, five hundred dollars, five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, thirty thousand dollars, and three hundred thousand dollars.
(E) Number of prize awards. The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of Game rule number three hundred forty 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 reordered tickets. Tickets shall be printed in accordance with this rule using random techniques in order that the following occur:
(1) Combinations winning each prize award are randomly distributed throughout all tickets printed in any given ticket issuance; and
(2) For each line in column one of the appendix to this rule, the player having the prize values and multipliers, if any, on that same line in columns three, four, five, six, and seven shall win the prize award on the same line in column eight, and in a pool of six million forty eight thousand tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having those prize values and multipliers, if any, should be as set forth on that same line in column nine.
(F) 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.
(G) Frequency of prize drawings.
(1) Random imprinting of prize awards on all tickets issued in Game rule number three hundred forty shall be accomplished in a manner, which complies with the commission's rules and procedures.
(2) When a ticket issued in Game rule number three hundred forty is sold or deemed sold in accordance with this rule and the covering material over any of the numbers, prize values and play symbols has been removed, the holder shall be deemed to have drawn the numbers, prize values and play symbols on that ticket which determine whether the holder is entitled to a regular prize award. All regular prize awards shall be deemed announced no later than the last day of the sales cycle of Game rule number three hundred forty in which the ticket was sold.
(H) Special claim, entry, receipt and validation procedures. The director shall 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 shall be claimed within the time limits set forth by commission rules.
(I) Validity of tickets.
(1) A mechanical error in printing prize awards, symbols, words or other numbers on a ticket shall not automatically invalidate that ticket. To the extent feasible, the director shall 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 shall 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 three hundred forty void if it is stolen, unissued, 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; or if the ticket fails any of the validation tests or procedures established by the director. 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.
(J) Director's conduct of Game rule number three hundred forty.
(1) The director shall conduct Game rule number three hundred forty in a manner consistent with the Lottery Act and the rules of the commission including, without limitation, this rule. The director shall inform the public of the provisions of this rule and the procedures established pursuant hereto which affect the play of Game rule number three hundred forty. 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 three hundred forty used in this rule are to be used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, Game rule number three hundred forty and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission.