Disney-ABC Domestic Television Who Wants to be a Millionaire You re in the Hot Seat Home Game Official Rules

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1 NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN A PRIZE. A PURCHASE DOES NOT ENHANCE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. YOU HAVE NOT YET WON. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (EXCLUDING RESIDENTS OF PUERTO RICO AND US TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS) WHO ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW. 1. Promotion Period: The You re in the Hot Seat Home Game (the Promotion ) commences at 12:00:01 AM Eastern Time ( ET ) on February 8, 2010, and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on May 28, 2010 (the Promotion Period ). 2. Administrator/Sponsor: The Promotion shall be administered by Brandmovers, Inc. ( BRANDMOVERS ) and sponsored by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. ( DADT or SPONSOR ). 3. Eligibility: The Promotion is only open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. All Promotion participants must be at least (eighteen) 18 years of age or older as of the beginning of the Promotion Period. Employees (and their immediate families (i.e., parents, spouse, children, siblings, grandparents, step-parents, step-children and step siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and members of the same household, whether or not related) of BRANDMOVERS, Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. ( Valpak ), and SPONSOR, and each of their respective parents, affiliated companies, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies and third party fulfillment or judging agencies (collectively, the Promotion Entities ) are not eligible to participate in or win the Promotion. 4. How To Participate and Play: To play the You re in the Hot Seat Home Game, obtain a scratch card ( Game Piece ) from the inside of specially-marked Valpak envelopes. Participants who do not receive a Game Piece from a specially-marked Valpak envelope may request one (1) Game Piece via mail, while supplies last, by sending a self-addressed (no P.O. Boxes) stamped envelope to Who Wants to be a Millionaire Watch & Win, P.O. Box 94079, Atlanta, GA Vermont residents may omit return postage. Requests must be post-marked by May 14, Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, incorrect, illegible, or postage due mail claims. Please allow up to two (2) weeks for delivery. There is a limit of one (1) Game Piece per participant. If any participant uses multiple addresses or mailing addresses to submit more than one (1) Game Piece request, such participant shall be disqualified from the Promotion and will not be eligible to win any prize. All Game Piece requests will become the property of DADT and will not be acknowledged or returned. To play, watch DADT's program (the Show ) (see your local listings for scheduling information) daily during the Promotion Period, as applicable, to determine whether the winning answer announced during the Show (the Winning Answer ) matches the answer printed on your Game Piece. If the Winning Answer matches the answer printed on your Game Piece, you have won the cash prize amount (the Prize ) printed in the

2 scratch-off area located on your Game Piece subject to the terms and conditions set forth in these. The daily Winning Answer will be identified by Meredith Vieira as today s Winning Answer in the specially produced :10 segment contained within the program. There is only one Winning Answer per show and it will be identified as the Winning Answer. The odds of winning a Prize in the Promotion is 1:181, Pre-emption of Shows. Check local listings for Show schedules, which may be changed or preempted without notice in one (1) or more broadcast areas (e.g., due to changes to the production schedule, special announcements, programs that may disrupt normal TV programming, local station programming pre-emptions or national broadcast preemptions). In these cases, at the election of the Show, the Promotion may be administered or otherwise fulfilled outside the above-stated dates. Promotion Entities shall have no responsibility or liability to any participant for any such changes to the Show schedule or the suspension or cancellation of any Show. Television, cable and satellite service is the sole responsibility of participant and full participation in the Promotion may depend on participant s account status with his or her service provider. 6. Winner Verification: For winner verification, send your entire winning Game Piece containing the printed Winning Answer (facsimiles and reproductions not accepted) along with your signature, birth date, complete mailing street address, address, and daytime telephone number clearly hand-printed on a 3x5 card by certified mail (return receipt requested) to: Who Wants to be a Millionaire Winner Verification, P.O. Box 94080, Atlanta, GA ( Prize Claims ). Be sure to keep a photo copy of your winning Game Piece for your records and possible additional verification. PRIZE CLAIMS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN JUNE 2, 2010 AND RECEIVED BY JUNE 10, All Prize Claims received after the claim deadline will not be eligible and will be destroyed. All winning Game Pieces and Prize Claims become the property of Sponsor upon receipt and will not be returned. None of the Promotion Entities are responsible for lost, late, damaged, incomplete, illegible, postage due, misdirected or mutilated Game Pieces or Prize Claims. By submitting a Prize Claim, each potential winner agrees that SPONSOR and its agents have the right to contact such potential winner by telephone, or regular mail. Prize Claims are subject to verification by Brandmovers, Inc., an independent judging organization, whose decisions are final. Please allow 6-8 weeks for verification and notification. Any Game Piece that is illegible, mutilated, altered, duplicated, tampered with, forged, cut, torn, contains printing, typographical or other errors, distributed where prohibited by law or not obtained legitimately will be void. Liability for any Game Piece containing printing or other errors is limited to replacement with (1) Game Piece, while supplies last. The submission of a Prize Claim and any requested eligibility verification materials is solely the responsibility of the participant. If due to a printing, production or other error, more prizes are claimed than are intended to be awarded for any prize level per Section 7 below, the intended prizes will be awarded in a random drawing from among all verified and validated prize claims received for that prize level. In no event will more than the stated number of prizes be awarded. 7. Prizes: The approximate retail value ( ARV ) of all prizes to be won in this Promotion is $1,600,000 USD. Sponsor will award one hundred (100) One-Thousand Dollar ($1,000) Prizes,

3 fifty (50) Ten-Thousand Dollar ($10,000) Prizes, ten (10) Fifty-Thousand Dollar ($50,000) Prizes, and five (5) One-Hundred Thousand Dollar ($100,000) Prizes. Unclaimed Prizes will not be awarded. 8. Winner Notification: Upon receipt and verification of valid winning Game Piece, Prize winners will be notified by mail, , or telephone. Upon receipt of a Prize, Prize winners are required to comply with any and all applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations, including, without limitation, all applicable federal, state and local taxes. Taxes on and in connection with all prizes are the sole responsibility of each Prize winner. Winners will receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the actual final value of his/her Prize. In order to receive a Prize, each Prize winner is required to complete and return to SPONSOR or its designated agent an Affidavit of Eligibility/ Liability Release and Publicity Release, except where prohibited by law. Failure to return the completed forms within five (5) days following the date of delivery thereof, may result in forfeiture of the Prize. All Prizes will be awarded subject to the verification and the eligibility requirements set forth in these. If a potential Prize winner cannot be contacted as specified above, or if he/she fails to complete and return the required forms, or if the potential Prize winner is deemed ineligible for any other reason in SPONSOR S sole discretion, the potential Prize winner will be disqualified from the Promotion. Each Prize, if applicable, will be mailed in the form of a check to the mailing address provided in the Affidavit of Eligibility. All properly claimed Prizes will be awarded and delivered to verified Prize winners. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery of any Prize. 9. General Terms: By participating in the Promotion and/or accepting any Prize the participants in this Promotion (the Promotion Participants ) hereby fully and unconditionally agree to be bound by these and the decisions of SPONSOR, or its designated agent, which are final and legally binding in all respects, and agree to waive any right to claim any ambiguity in these. The Promotion Participants also agree to assume all risk of loss, damage, destruction, delay or misdirection of materials/mail/ submitted to SPONSOR or BRANDMOVERS, and further agree that all prizes are awarded upon the condition that the Promotion Entities or any of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, officers, directors, partners, principals, partnerships, employees or agents shall have no liability whatsoever and shall be held harmless for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind to persons or property, including death, sustained, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in connection with or resulting from acceptance, possession or use/misuse of any Prize, or participation in this Promotion or participation in any Promotion-related activities and further acknowledge that said parties have neither made, nor are in any manner responsible or liable for, any warranty, representation or guarantee, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any. SPONSOR reserves the right, in its sole discretion, without prior notice and at any time, to cancel, terminate or suspend this Promotion, or any portion thereof, should virus, bugs, nonauthorized human intervention or other causes beyond the control of SPONSOR corrupt or impair the administration, integrity or security of the Promotion. The Promotion Entities and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, officers, directors, partners, principals, partnerships, employees or agents are not responsible for hardware, software or telephone failures of any kind,

4 traffic congestion on the internet or at any website or any combination thereof, lost network connections, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by SPONSOR, users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion or by technical or human error which may occur and/or which may damage a user s system or limit a Promotion Participant's ability to participate and/or redeem prizes in the Promotion. SPONSOR reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the Promotion, violates these or otherwise engages in fraudulent or offensive conduct with respect to this Promotion. Caution: Any attempt to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation or administration of the Promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, SPONSOR reserves the right to seek damages from any such Promotion Participants to the fullest extent of the law. By accepting a Prize, each Prize winner agrees that SPONSOR may use such winner's name, likeness, photograph and/or biographical information, without limitation, for promotional purposes without further consideration or payment, where permitted by law. Prizes are awarded as is with no warranty or guarantee express or implied. Prizes are not transferable. No Prize substitutions are allowed except at SPONSOR S sole discretion or as otherwise provided herein. SPONSOR S failure to enforce any term of these shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. Should any provision of these be deemed unenforceable or invalid, the other provisions of these shall remain in full force and effect. In the event that this Promotion is challenged by any legal or regulatory authority (including but not limited to any federal or state governmental authority), SPONSOR reserves the right to discontinue or modify the Promotion, as applicable, or to disqualify any Promotion Participants residing in any affected geographic areas, as applicable. In such event, SPONSOR shall have no liability to any Promotion Participants who are disqualified due to such an action. 10. Dispute Resolution: Except where prohibited, participants agree that: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these, or the rights and obligations of any participant(s), SPONSOR, BRANDMOVERS, and their respective agents shall be governed by and construed exclusively in accordance with the laws of the State of California without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law of any jurisdiction. Promotion Participants agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to this Promotion, or awarding of the Prizes, shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the State of California and the Promotion Participants hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. Except where prohibited, by participating in this Promotion, the Promotion Participants agree that: (a) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or awarding of the Prizes, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with participating in this Promotion but in no event attorneys' fees; and (c) under no circumstances will any participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitations or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above may not apply to you.

5 11. Request for Names of Prize Winners and : For the name of the Prize winners and/or a copy of these, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Who Wants to be a Millionaire c/o Brandmovers, PO Box P.O. Box Atlanta, GA Vermont residents may omit return postage. All requests for a copy of the and the names of Prize winners must be made by June 30, Please note on the front left-hand corner of your outer envelope whether you are requesting or the name of Prize Winners. 12. SPONSOR: This contest is sponsored by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, having a place of business at 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA