Section 370-700-710 - POWER PLAY710.01 Promotion Description The Powerball Power Play promotion is a limited extension of the Powerball game and is conducted in accordance with the Powerball game rules and other lottery rules applicable to the Powerball game except as may be amended herein. The promotion will begin at a time announced by the Nebraska Lottery and will continue until discontinued by the Nebraska Lottery. The promotion will offer to the owners of a qualifying play a chance to increase the amount of any of the eight lump sum Set Prizes (the lump sum prizes normally paying $4 to $1,000,000) won in a drawing held during the promotion. The Grand Prize jackpot is not a Set Prize and will not be increased.
710.02 Qualifying Play Except as otherwise provided in the Powerball game rules or these Regulations, a qualifying play is any single Powerball play for which the player pays an extra dollar for the Power Play option play and which is recorded at the Party Lottery's central computer as a qualifying play.
710.03 Prizes to be increased A qualifying play which wins one of the eight lowest lump sum Set Prizes (excluding the Jackpot prize) shall be paid as follows;
| Match 5+0 | $2,000,000 |
| Match 4+1 | $40,000 |
| Match 4+0 | $200 |
| Match 3+1 | $200 |
| Match 3+0 | $14 |
| Match 2+1 | $14 |
| Match 1+1 | $12 |
| Match 0+1 | $12 |
710.04 Prize pool 710.04(1)Prize Pool. The prize pool for all prize categories shall consist of up to forty-nine and ninety-six one-hundredths ( 49.96%) percent of each drawing period's sales, including any specific statutorily-mandated tax of a selling lottery to be included in the price of a ticket, after the Powerball 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 returned to all lotteries participating in the reserve after the end of all claim periods of all selling lotteries, carried forward to a replacement game, or expended in a manner as directed by the Product Group in accordance with state law.71 0.04(2)Prize Reserve Accounts. An additional four-one-hundredths of one percent ( 0.04%) of sales, including any specific statutorily-mandated tax to be included in the price of a ticket, 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 Group710.04(3)Expected Prize Payout. Except as provided in these rules, all prizes awarded shall be paid as lump sum set prizes. Instead of the Powerball set prize amounts, qualifying Power Play plays will pay the amounts shown in 710.03. In certain rare instances, the Powerball set prize amount may be less than the amount shown. In such case, the eight lowest Power Play prizes will be changed to an amount announced after the draw. For example, if the Match 4+1 Powerball set prize amount of $10,000 becomes $5,000 under the rules of the Powerball game, then a Power Play player winning that prize amount would win $20,000.
710.07 Limitations on payment of Power Play prizes710.07(1)Prize Pool Carried Forward. The prize pool percentage allocated to the Power Play 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.710.07(2)Pari-Mutuel Prizes. -All Prize Amounts. If the total of the original Powerball set prizes and the multiplied Power Play 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 multiplied set prizes) awarded shall be drawn from the following sources, in the following order: (i) the amount allocated to the set prizes and carried forward from previous draws, if any; (ii) an amount from the Powerball Set-Prize Reserve Account, if available in the account, not to exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) per drawing. If, after these sources are depleted, there are not sufficient funds to pay the set prizes awarded (including multiplied prizes), then the highest set prize (including the multiplied prizes) shall become a pari-mutuel prize. If the amount of the highest set prize, when paid on a pari-mutuel basis, drops to or below the next highest set prize and there are still not sufficient funds to pay the remaining set prizes awarded, then the next highest set prize, including the multiplied prize, shall become a pari-mutuel prize. This procedure shall continue down through all set prize levels, if necessary, until all set prize levels become pari-mutuel prize levels. In that instance, the money available from the funding sources listed in this rule shall be divided among the winning plays in proportion to their respective prize percentages.710.08 Prize payment 710.08(1)Prize Payments. All Power Play prizes shall be paid in cash through the Party Lottery that sold the winning ticket(s). A Party Lottery may begin paying Power Play prizes after receiving authorization to pay from the MUSL central office.710.08(2)Prizes Rounded. Prizes, which, under these rules, may become pari-mutuel prizes, may be rounded down so that prizes can be paid in multiples of 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. 700, § 710