A 66-year-old Florida man is a millionaire thanks to the Florida Lottery. John Sinclair claimed a $1 million top prize from the JEOPARDY! Scratch-Off game at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. Sinclair of Edgewater chose to receive his winnings as a one-time,
On a light day for Florida Lottery game drawings — two Cash4Life pulls and two Fantasy 5 pulls — jackpot hits came from tickets bought at a Florida Keys gas station and a Miami-Dade 7-Eleven.
A winning Fantasy 5 ticket worth $108,052.05 was purchased at a 7-Eleven at 13695 SW 288th St. in Homestead, the Florida Lottery confirmed in a news release Monday. The deadline to claim the top prize is Sept. 3 at midnight.
The Florida Lottery is giving players new ways to win with four new scratch-off games that launch in February.
A lottery player’s stop at a Circle K convenience store in Florida ended in him winning a million dollar prize. While Raul Llama missed the $25 million jackpot in the game, he still walked away with a second-tier prize of $1 million, the Florida Lottery announced Feb. 26.
A lottery player’s $5 ticket sold at a 7-Eleven in Florida ended up winning him a $1 million top prize. Dwayne Croft bought his scratch-off ticket in The Cash Wheel game at the gas station convenience store chain at 14068 Narcoossee Road in Orlando, the Florida Lottery said Feb. 25.
A Bradenton man is over $1 million richer after he claimed a top prize on a Florida Lottery scratch-off game. Jesus Morales, 28, bought the winning ticket at the Ellenton Quick Mart, 2413 U.S. 301 North, according to the Florida Lottery.
The ticket was purchased at a Gate convenience store on Collins Road in Jacksonville and the station gets a $2,000 commission for selling the winning ticket, officials said. The game launched with two top prizes of $25 million — “largest ever offered on a Florida Scratch-Off game” — and one remains. Odds of winning $25 million are 1 in 21,920,355.
Florida Lottery prizes must be claimed within 180 days, or six months, from the drawing date. To claim a single-payment cash option, a winner has within the first 60 days after the applicable draw ...