N.D. Admin. Code 10-16-04-06

Current through Supplement No. 394, October, 2024

Section 10-16-04-06 - Power play option

1. The power play option is a limited extension of the POWERBALL® game and is conducted according to the game group's game rules. The option offers the owner of a qualifying play a chance to multiply or increase the amount of a set prize.

2. A qualifying play is a single POWERBALL® play for which the player pays an extra one dollar for the power play option. Power play does not apply to the grand prize.

3. A qualifying play which wins one of the seven lowest set prizes (excluding the match 5+0 prize) will be multiplied by the number selected, two through five or sometimes ten, in a separate random power play drawing. The match 5+0 prize, for players selecting the power play option, shall be paid two million unless a higher limited promotional dollar amount is announced by the game group or unless a lower dollar amount is announced by the game group under its limitation of liability rules.

4. A prize awarded must be paid as a lump sum set prize. Instead of the normal set prize amount, a qualifying power play will pay the amounts shown below when matched with the power play number drawn:

POWERBALL® Pays Instead
Matches Per Play	Set Prize Amount	Prize Amount With Power Play Purchase
		10X	5X	4X	3X	2X
5 white + 0 red	$1,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000
4 white + 1 red	$50,000	$500,000	$25 0,000	$20 0,000	$15 0,000	$10 0,000
4 white + 0 red	$100	$1,000	$500	$400	$300	$200
3 white + 1 red	$100	$1,000	$500	$400	$300	$200
3 white + 0 red	$7	$70	$35	$28	$21	$14
2 white + 1 red	$7	$70	$35	$28	$21	$14
1 white + 1 red	$4	$40	$20	$16	$12	$8
0 white + 1 red	$4	$40	$20	$16	$12	$8

Rarely, under the game group's limitation of liability rules, a set prize amount may be less than the amount shown. In that case, the eight lowest power play prizes will be changed to an amount announced after the draw. For example, if the match 4+1 set prize amount of fifty thousand dollars becomes twenty-five thousand dollars under the game group's rules, a power play player winning that prize amount when a "5" has been drawn would win one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000 x 5).

5. The following table reflects the probability of the power play numbers being drawn:

When the 10X multiplier is available:

Power Play	Probability of Prize Increase
10X - Prize won times 10	1 in 43
5X - Prize won times 5	2 in 43
4X - Prize won times 4	3 in 43
3X - Prize won times 3	13 in 43
2X - Prize won times 2	24 in 43
When the 10X multiplier is not available:
Power Play	Probability of Prize Increase
10X - Prize won times 10	0 in 42
5X - Prize won times 5	2 in 42
4X - Prize won times 4	3 in 42
3X - Prize won times 3	13 in 42
2X - Prize won times 2	24 in 42

6. The 10X multiplier for the seven lowest prize levels shall at a minimum be available for all drawings in which the advertised grand prize amount is one hundred fifty million dollars or less.

Power play does not apply to the grand prize. A power play match of 5+0 prize is set at two million dollars, regardless of the multiplier selected. The game group may elect to run limited promotions that may modify the multiplier features.

N.D. Admin Code 10-16-04-06

Effective February 1, 2004; amended effective November 8, 2005; April 1,2008; January 4, 2009; November 1, 2010; January 15, 2012; January 19, 2014.

Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2016-359, January 2016, effective 10/4/2015.

General Authority: NDCC 53-12.1-13

Law Implemented: NDCC 53-12.1-13