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Sarasota County Man Wins $1 MILLION on a $5 FL Lottery Scratch Off Ticket
12-15-21
TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announced that Yorky Leon, 37, of Venice, claimed a $1 million top prize from the $5 - GOLD RUSH SUPREME Scratch-Off game at the Lottery's Fort Myers District Office. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $880,000.00.
Leon purchased his winning ticket from Wawa, located at 2970 Executive Drive in Venice (Jacaranda & i-75). The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.
The $5 GOLD RUSH SUPREME game launched in January and features more than $199 million in cash prizes, including 24 top prizes of $1 million! The game's overall odds of winning are one-in-3.97.
Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery's portfolio of games, comprising approximately 75 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $1.3 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2020-21.
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The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $40 billion to enhance education and sending more than 880,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida's economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $79.1 billion in prizes and made more than 3,100 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.