MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A South Florida woman had a little ‘luck’ and is now the state’s newest millionaire.
Francis Flores, 57, of Homestead, claimed a $1 million top prize from the STRUCK BY LUCK scratch-off game at the Lottery’s Miami District Office. She chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $880,000.00.
Flores purchased her winning ticket from a Publix, located at 23300 Southwest 112th Avenue in Homestead. The store will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.
The STRUCK BY LUCK game gives players the chance to win prizes of up to $1 million. This game costs $10 per ticket and has seven million winning tickets. There are more than $176.4 million in cash prizes. The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-3.36.
Last month, two Miami women also won million dollar prizes playing scratch off games.
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Nayvi Brizuela, 36, won the million dollar top prize by playing the Florida Lotterys’ THE FASTEST ROAD TO $1,000,000 scratch-off game.
Maria Duran, 65, also from Miami, also claimed a million dollar prize in the same game.
Recently, three women in Broward each won million-dollar prizes playing scratch-off games. And a Fort Lauderdale man became a multimillionaire after his scratch off game win.
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 in the fiscal year 2020-2021.
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