Section 3770:1-9-740 - Game rule number seven hundred forty(A) Title and term. Ohio Lottery Commission game rule number seven hundred forty, "Bingo Times 50" 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 seven hundred forty one.(B) General design (1) Game rule seven hundred forty is an extended play game and is generally know as an "instant lottery."(2) Holder of a valid ticket will remove the covering off the entire play area on the front of the ticket to reveal 33 "Caller's Card" numbers, ten "Bonus Numbers," and nine "Cards." If the player matches the "Bingo Numbers" from the "Caller's Card" and reveals a complete vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line, the player wins the corresponding prize amount shown. If the player matches the "Bingo Numbers" from the "Caller's Card" in all four corners, the player wins the corresponding prize amount shown. If the player matches the "Bingo Numbers" from the "Caller's Card" to make a complete "X," eight numbers including the "Free" spaces, the player wins the corresponding prize amount shown. The player will remove the covering off the "Bonus Box" to multiply the total prize shown by "1X," "2X," "3X," "4X," "5X," "10X," "25X," or "50X." The player may win more than one prize on the ticket, but cannot win more than one prize on each "Card" inclusive. Only the highest winning prize of each "Card" will be paid. The player will then remove the covering off the entire play area on the backside of the ticket to reveal three "Bonus Games" which are played separately. Each game has a "Winning Number" and five "Your Numbers." If the player matches one or more "Your Numbers" with the "Winning Number," in the same "Bonus Game," the player wins the prize amount shown below the matching number(s). The games on the front and back of the ticket are played separately. There are twenty-four chances to win on each ticket, and a player may win up to twenty-two times on one ticket.(3) The only "prize values," which shall appear on a ticket in game rule number seven hundred forty are: five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, thirty dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, and fifty thousand dollars.(C) Price of tickets. The price of a ticket issued by the commission in game rule number seven hundred forty shall be ten dollars.(D) Structure, nature and value of prize awards. (1) There shall be one type of prize in game rule number seven hundred forty called a "prize award."(2) As used in this rule, "prize award" shall mean one of the following monetary figures, which is the total of all winning prize values appearing on the ticket: ten dollars, twenty dollars, thirty dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars, seventy-five dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars, and five hundred thousand dollars. Each ticket in game rule number seven hundred forty shall be imprinted in such a way that prize awards from the set listed above may be won.(E) Number of prize awards. The number of prize awards in any sales cycle of game rule number seven 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 partial reordered tickets. Tickets shall be reprinted 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 players having the prize value and multiplier, if any, on that same line in column three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve shall win the prize award on the same line in column fourteen; and in a pool of six million tickets sold, mathematical reasoning suggests that the number of tickets having that prize value and multiplier, if any, should be as set forth on that same line in column fifteen.(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 seven hundred forty shall 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 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 prize award. All prize awards shall be deemed announced no later than the last day of the sales cycle of game rule number seven 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 seven hundred forty 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; or 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.(J) Director's conduct of game rule number seven hundred forty. (1) The director shall conduct game rule number seven hundred forty, and any promotions associated therewith, 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 seven 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 seven hundred forty used in this rule are to be considered generic terms used solely for purposes of this rule. In actual operation, game rule number seen hundred forty and these elements may be given names or titles chosen by the commission. Click to view Appendix
Ohio Admin. Code 3770:1-9-740
Effective: 6/20/2022
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