370 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1600, § 1610
The Mega Millions Megaplier promotion is a limited extension of the Mega Millions game and is conducted in accordance with the Game Rules, the Amended and Restated Mega Millions Official Game Rules revised effective March 1, 2005, as they may be amended from time to time, and other lottery rules applicable to the Mega Millions game, except as may be amended in these regulations. The promotion will end at a time and date announced by the Nebraska Lottery. The promotion will offer to the owners of a qualifying play a chance to multiply or increase the amount of any of the eight lump sum Set Prizes (the lump sum prizes normally, as of the effective date of these regulations and subject to change, paying $2 to $250,000) won in a drawing held during the promotion. The Grand Prize is not a Set Prize and will not be multiplied or increased by means of the Megaplier promotion.
A qualifying play is any single Mega Millions play for which the player pays an extra dollar for the Megaplier option play and which is recorded at a Party Lottery's central computer as a qualifying play.
A qualifying play which wins one of seven lowest lump sum Set Prizes will be multiplied by the number selected, either two, three, or four (2, 3, or 4), in a separate random Megaplier drawing announced in a manner approved by the Product Group. The Match 5+0 prize, for players selecting the Megaplier option, shall be $1,000,000 (one million dollars) unless a higher limited promotional dollar amount is announced by the Group or unless a lower dollar amount is announced by the Group under it limitation of liability rules.
MUSL will either itself conduct, or authorize a U.S. Lottery to conduct on its behalf, a separate random "Megaplier" drawing. Before each Mega Millions drawing a single number (2, 3 or 4) shall be drawn. The Mega Millions Group may change one or more of these multiplier numbers and/or the Match 5+0 Megaplier prize amount for special promotions from time to time.
The prize pool for all prize categories offered by the Party Lotteries shall consist of up to fifty-five percent (55%) of each drawing period's sales, as determined by the Game Group, or a different percentage when set by the Game Rules, of each drawing period's sales, including any specific statutorily-mandated tax of a Party Lottery to be included in the price of a lottery ticket, after the Mega Millions prize reserve accounts are funded to the amounts set by the Product Group. Any amount remaining in the prize pool at the end of this game shall be carried forward to a replacement game or expended in a manner as directed by the Product Group in accordance with jurisdiction law.
Any amount not used to pay for multiplied prizes may be collected and placed in the rollover account or in trust in one or more prize reserve accounts until the prize reserve accounts reach the amounts designated by the Product Group.
Except as provided in the Game Rules, all prizes awarded shall be paid as lump sum set prizes. Instead of the Mega Millions Set Prize amounts, qualifying Megaplier plays will pay the Set Prize amount multiplied by the number selected in the Megaplier drawing. In certain rare instances, however, a qualifying Megaplier play may pay less than the Set Prize multiplied by the number drawn in the Megaplier drawing. In such a case, the Megaplier prizes will be a multiple of the changed Mega Millions prize amount announced after the draw. For example, if a Set Prize amount that is normally $250,000 becomes $150,000 under the rules of the Mega Millions game, then a Megaplier player winning that prize amount with a 4X multiplier would win only $600,000 ($150,000 x 4).
The probability of the various Megaplier numbers being drawn during a single Mega Millions drawing will be as set in the Game Rules. The Product Group may elect to run limited promotions that may increase the multiplier numbers.
The prize pool percentage allocated to the Megaplier set prizes shall be carried forward to subsequent draws if all or a portion of it is not needed to pay the set prizes awarded in the current draw or may be held in a prize reserve account.
If the total of the original Mega Millions set prizes and the multiplied Megaplier set prizes awarded in a drawing exceeds the percentage of the prize pools allocated to the set prizes, then the amount needed to fund the set prizes (including the Megaplier prize amounts) awarded shall be drawn in the manner set by the Game Rules.
All Megaplier prizes shall be paid in one lump sum through the Party Lottery that sold the winning ticket(s). A Party Lottery may begin paying Megaplier prizes after receiving authorization to pay from the MUSL central office.
Prizes, which, under the Game Rules, may become pari-mutuel prizes, may be rounded down so that prizes can be paid in whole dollars. Breakage resulting from rounding these prizes shall be carried forward to the prize pool for the next drawing.
370 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1600, § 1610