There were four winners in the drawings held Monday in the Florida Lottery, excluding Cash Pop. The big winner was in the Cash4Life game, where a ticket sold in Virginia is worth $1,000 a week for life.

Estimated jackpot for the next drawing on Dec. 6 is $435 million.

Here are Monday’s results: Second tier prize.

The game’s starting jackpot is $20 million. Powerball has nine prize levels with lower-tier prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million and up to $2 million with Power Play and $10 million with Double Play.

Powerball with Power Play tickets cost $3 per play. Powerball with Double Play tickets cost $3 per play.

Common Powerball numbers:Powerball numbers you need to know: These most commonly drawn numbers could help you win. Cash4Life is a regional multi-state game that offers two lifetime prizes and great odds.

If you match only the five white balls you win the second prize of $1,000 a week for life. What to know about Florida Lottery:Ultimate guide to the Florida Lottery, Powerball and Mega Millions.

Fantasy 5 is a daily draw game with a top prize of approximately $100,000 if won by a single winner. If there is no top-prize winner, the top prize rolls down to the 4-of-5 and 3-of-5 prize levels.

If there is no top prize winner, the money in the top prize pool rolls down and is shared equally among winners who picked four out of the five numbers, with a maximum prize of $555 per winner. Cash Pop gives players a chance to win prizes up to $1,250 by matching just one number.

Then select the amount you want to play per number: $1, $2, or $5. The dollar amount played determines the cash prize you could win.

you can select up to 10 consecutive draws.

On Thursday the Florida Lottery announced three big winners from games held earlier this year, excluding Cash Pop. One of the lucky three is a West Palm resident.

She chose to receive her prize money as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $1 million. The store where Wierman purchased her winning ticket from, a Publix on Okeechobee Boulevard, will receive a $2,000 commission for selling the winning ticket.

Similar to the game play for PowerBall and Mega Millions, players try to match the five white balls, numbers one through 60, and the Cash Ball, numbers one through four, to win the top prize of $1,000 a day for life.

Drawings are held everyday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

Ten states currently offer Cash4Life tickets.

Top 10 lottery jackpots:Who won and where winning tickets were bought. The overall odds of winning any of the Cash4Life prizes are one in eight and the odds of winning $1,000 per day for life are 1 in almost 22 million, according to the Florida Lottery.

According to the Florida Lottery’s website, you can watch the drawing live and past drawings on Vimeo at Drawing results are available on this website, at Florida Lottery retailers and by phone at 850-921 7529. Lianna Norman covers trending news in Palm Beach County for The Palm Beach Post.

You can follow her reporting on social media@LiannaNorman on Twitter.

A LUCKY lottery player will now see $1,000 a week for life after winning big on a scratch-off game in Florida. Frank O’Dell, who lives in Hernando, Florida, took home the top prize from the $1,000 A Week For Life game after buying a ticket from a Circle K.

“But I think it’s safe to say that my luck has finally changed and now I’m set for life.”. After finding out he was the prize winner, he opted to take home the lump sum amount of $930,000 instead of the recurring payments.

However, the choice of a lump sum or recurring payments is one of the toughest decisions lottery winners make. You can either gain access to a high amount of cash straight away or secure a steady money stream throughout the years and end up with your full prize amount.

Each ticket to play costs just $2, with eight top prizes available. The odds of winning A Week For Life are one in 4.43.

Winning the lottery mostly incorporates luck of the draw, but there are some strategies players have recommended in the past. For one, you can statistically up your chances of winning by joining a lottery pool.

A math professor in Florida also suggests employing a truly random number selection to boost your odds. Richard Lustig, who won over $1million playing seven Florida jackpots, suggests using the same numbers over and over again as this could improve your chances.

Keep in mind, there’s no surefire way to win the lottery and risks are prevalent in any kind of gambling. Only play if you can afford to do so.

With so many eyes on you, you’ll need to protect yourself and your newfound fortune from outside influences. The U.S.

Kurt Panouses told local Milwaukee-based ABC affiliate WISN he has advised over 30 winners about the key steps they should take. “You don’t go back home to your little hometown and knock down your house and build a big mansion,” Panouses said.

“Why not get the court order to say: ‘Hey, in addition, we would like this to have some privacy and get a judge to give you a court order,'” he said. He also urged winners not to put money into small, local banks.

Another lottery player won $2million, but a small decision led him to only get $1.7million in his pockets. Meanwhile, a businessman gave some chilling advice to other lottery winners after his own jackpot win led to his own bankruptcy.

LAKELAND — As Charlene Gumble sat at the counter of the Lake Morton Market and Deli on her lunch break, she delayed consumption of the sub sandwich she had just bought. Using a dime as her implement, Gamble began scratching away the coverings on seven rows of numbers on a black-and-pink Florida Lottery ticket.

The ticket, 500X The Cash, is the first scratch-off ticket in Florida costing $50. Did Gumble hesitate to spend half a C-note on a game of chance.

“No,” she said casually. “That’s my lunch money.”.

The Florida Lottery introduced the $50 game in late February, marking an increase of 66.7% in price over the most costly scratch-off tickets previously available, a pair of $30 games. The new 500X The Cash ticket promises a maximum prize of $25 million — the largest amount ever offered in a scratch-off game — but the state is printing only two tickets with that payout.

The $50 ticket also offers the potential for prizes ranging from $100 to $1 million. The Florida Lottery reported that three players claimed $1 million prizes last week, most recently a Plant City man who opted for a lump-sum award of $820,000 rather than deferred payments totaling the full prize amount.

Florida voters approved a ballot measure the previous year to allow a lottery after state officials promised that the revenue from sales would bolster funding for public education. That first game, Millionaire, sold for $1.

In considering new products, the Florida Lottery uses “market research, industry performance standards, product specialists and contract gaming vendors,” spokesperson Meredyth Hope Norrman said by email.

Davis does not need approval from the governor or the Legislature to introduce new games or increase the price of tickets. Most states have adopted lotteries since the 1980s as a source of government revenue.

Texas offers six instant games at that price. While the Florida Lottery has continued to sell an array of $1 scratch-off tickets, the state added a $2 scratch-off ticket in 1993 and introduced its first $5 game five years later.

The first $30 scratch-off game, called $600 Million High Roller, debuted in 2008. The state rolled out another $30 ticket, Fastest Road to $1,000,000, in 2020 but did not push the price threshold higher until the release of the $50 ticket on Feb.

Lakeland resident Michael Wilson was invited a few years ago to join Flamingo Forum, a private online group the Florida Lottery consults for research on its games. Wilson said the state began raising the possibility of launching a $50 scratch-off ticket last year.

But he hasn’t joined the rush to buy the $50 tickets. “I would never buy one,” Wilson said.

Those are for the high-rollers.”. The state lists the overall odds of collecting a payout of any amount on the $50 ticket at one in 4.5.

(The Florida Lottery also offers a second-chance drawing for non-winning tickets with prizes of up to $25,000.). The state promotes the Florida Lottery as a boon to education, reporting that revenues have produced more than $41 billion in funding for schools and students.

The amount of money transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund has not come close to matching the growth in lottery revenue, which has averaged more than 10% a year. A study from the 2017-2018 fiscal year found that the amount of money from lottery ticket sales had declined from its original 39% to 26%, the Florida Education Association reported.

Lawmakers have used lottery money for such budget areas as college scholarships, building programs and a school recognition program, as well as for day-to-day operations rather than instructional programs, as Treasure Coast Newspapers reported in a 2017 investigation.

Clerks at two Lakeland convenience stores said sales of the $50 ticket have been steady but not spectacular. Hardy Chokshi, owner of Super Stop Food Store on Lincoln Avenue, said he sometimes sells as many as 10 or 15 of the highest-priced tickets on Fridays, the day many workers receive paychecks.

“Some people try because they buy the small ones and they win $100 or something and they just want to try it at least one time to see how it is.”. Chokshi displays a certificate from the Florida Lottery attesting that his store sold a ticket last September that yielded a $1 million prize.

Tickets costing $20 or $30 remain much more popular than the 500X The Cash ticket, Chokshi said. “The $50 scratch-off, only certain people can afford.

“Some people still hesitate to spend $50 on just one. They prefer to scratch four or five different ones and have more chances to win than just one ticket.”.

Hossain, working the counter at C&O Food Mart on Central Avenue, estimated that he sells three to five of the $50 tickets a day. Hossain, who also works at another convenience store, said he has cashed in plenty of $100 winners on those tickets.

“It depends on the mentality of the customer,” he said. “Some, they play like they don’t care, and some, they play a little.”.

One member recently posted the question: “Are the $50 tickets worth it. ”.

“I have a hard time throwing away 5 bucks, much less 50. To each his own,” was one response.

One commenter reported having won four times in 60 tries on the 500X The Cash game. “I thought they were (worth it),” another man wrote.

I have won $500 twice, a hundred a handful of times and a $1,000. I thought I was way ahead until I checked my bank statement and realized that just since the 1st of the month I’ve spent OVER $3,000.”.

Indeed, the group’s feed includes plenty of posts from members sharing photos of winning 500X The Cash tickets. In most cases, the payoff is $100, but some reported winning as much as $1,000.

Wexler, a recovering gambling addict, said that lottery tickets add to the risk of abuse for people with a genetic inclination toward excessive gambling. While living in New York in the 1960s, Wexler said, he spent $50 to $100 a day on lottery tickets, in addition to money he spent in daily trips to a horse racing track.

“There were people that would go in and buy $100, $200 a day in tickets, even on $1 tickets,” Wexler said. “So $50 is not something that changes the gambling addiction.

Wexler said he’s more concerned about the emergence of state-sponsored gambling, first through lottery drawings and instant games and recently with the spread of legalized sports betting. He said that many who spend excessively on lottery tickets don’t consider that act to be a form of gambling.

“Now they make lottery legal, and people that have that gene are gambling on the lottery and becoming addicted gamblers.”. Wexler said that some compulsive gamblers only play the lottery, while others gamble in various ways.

Since it launched in 1988, the Florida Lottery has created more than 1,000 new millionaires, awarded over $10 billion to lucky Floridians, and provided over $44 billion to the state’s education fund and Bright Futures scholarships.

What are the insider tips on picking the right numbers. What happens after you win.

Here’s the information, tips and advice we’re shared about playing the lottery in Florida. “The probability is so small, dare say impossible,” Jeffrey Miecznikowski, associate professor of biostatistics at the University at Buffalo, told the Associated Press.

We just can’t imagine these types of things.”. To put it bluntly, the odds are against you to a ridiculous degree.

Here are Florida’s top 10 biggest lottery winners, so far, and here’s how we rank among the states with the most Powerball jackpot winners. Lotto jackpots keep rising, with several of them surpassing $1 billion or more.

Then again, winning doesn’t mean happiness, lifelong wealth or even safety. These seven top Florida lottery winners won big, and then lost everything.

There is no right or wrong way to pick lottery numbers. People have tried maximizing their odds by playing lucky numbers or by playing every week, but the odds are so astronomical that unless you’re buying thousands or hundreds of thousands of tickets your odds won’t noticeably change.

“The more tickets you buy, the more chances you have to win.”. You can improve your chances of not having to split your winnings, though.

Get random numbers or buy Quick Picks to improve your chances of being the only one with the right numbers. And never play numbers you see in a fortune cookie message unless you want to split your jackpot with 110 other people.

Even if they are randomly drawn you can find some patterns, even if they don’t actually help you in future drawings in the slightest. Here are some odd coincidences we found while looking at recent Powerball and Mega Millions winning numbers.

The Florida Lottery doesn’t sell tickets by mail, fax or online, and they do not offer a subscription service. Maybe, depending on the retailer.

It’s up to the place where you buy them. Stay calm, protect your ticket, keep your mouth shut, and talk to some people who know how to handle money.

Just as important are the things you absolutely should not do when those winning numbers get called. That decision depends on your goals, your age, and what lottery rules are for beneficiaries to continue receiving payments, or if you’d likely squander a lump sum.

Mark Steber, chief tax officer at Jackson Hewitt, recommends considering the following:. Here’s a rundown of everything to think about, including how likely you are to blow it all the first year.

If you don’t have a Social Security card or you’re a resident alien, they’ll withhold 24% for any winnings of $600 or more. If you’re a non-resident alien, it’s 30% from all prize amounts.

Talk to your tax person, soon. The Internal Revenue Service requires the Florida Lottery to report all winnings for $600 and above for U.S.

Depends on the game, and how you want to get paid.

But you’ve got 180 days from that date if you want the 30-annual-payment option. Florida Lottery Scratch-Off and Fast Play game prizes: You’ve got 60 days from the drawing date to claim these.

If you win less than $250,000, same business day. Anything more than $250,000 will get direct deposited within two business days.

Up to you. Winners can choose to get a check or have money wired directly to their accounts.

Prizes of $599 or less you can get at any place that sells Florida lottery tickets.

You can find them at flalottery.com/lotteryOffices. Prizes greater than $1,000,000 plus all prizes with an annual payment option, congratulations.

You can submit your winning ticket to a Florida Lottery District Office to forward it to headquarters for processing and payment but you’ll have to claim it in Tallahassee. Not for long, sorry.

By Florida law, the Florida Lottery must provide records of the winner’s name, city of residence, what they won, when they won it, and how much they won to anyone who asks. (Street addresses and phone numbers are kept confidential, for what that’s worth.).

So you have three months to get your affairs in order and hire someone to answer your phone. If you think your ticket has been lost or stolen, call the Florida Lottery’s Division of Security at (850) 487-7730.

Everyone would like to win big, but that many big dreams mean perfect opportunities for scammers looking for vulnerable targets. Follow these tips on avoiding the most common lottery scams.

Samantha Neely, Fort Myers News-Press. Editor’s note: Dr.

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Thanks to a scratched-off piece of cardboard, a Pensacola man has a somewhat more comfortable bank account. On Friday, Sept.

He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $820,000. Banks nabbed his winning ticket from Publix, 9251 University Parkway, Pensacola, which will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling it.

The 500x the Cash game, which started in February 2022, offers cash prizes up to $25 million with a possible $500 instant bonus for matching any winning numbers to a bonus number you choose. 500X the Cash was the first $50 scratch-off game in Florida.

Florida Lottery launched this game on Feb. 28, 2022.

If you get a 5x, 10x, 20x, 100x or 500x symbol you win that many times the amount of the prize shown. If you get a Moneybag symbol, you can win double the prize amount shown for all 35 prizes.

Both of the top $25 million prizes available have been claimed. In June 2022, lottery officials announced George Demetriades of Bonita Springs won $25 million from his 500X the Cash scratch-off ticket.

Demetriades bought his scratch-off from Circle K, 10460 Bonita Beach Road, Bonita Springs. The store received a $50,000 bonus commission.

That ticket was purchased from Publix, 13650 Fiddlesticks Blvd., Fort Myers. Like Demetriades, the mystery winner opted for a one-time lump sum of $20,560,000.

25, 2023, the identity of the Riverview winner has not been made public. Want to know more before you play.

There are four left. As of Sept.

There are also eight $50,000 prizes left, 44 $20,000 prizes, 36 for $10,000, and other lesser jackpots. No.

Tickets cannot be purchased by mail, fax or online. There are more than 13,000 authorized Florida Lottery retailers here, the site states.

To claim a single-payment cash option, a winner has within the first 60 days after the applicable draw date to claim it. Florida Lottery says its scratch-off tickets and Fast Play game prizes “must be claimed within 60 days of the official end-of-game date.

According to the Florida Lottery, state law requires 80% of unclaimed prize funds from expired tickets be transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. The remaining 20% is returned to the prize pool for future drawings.

game won, date won, and amount won to any third party who requests the information.”. However, the site states, since May 25, 2022, the “names of lottery winners claiming prizes of $250,000 or greater will be temporarily exempt from public disclosure for 90 days from the date the prize is claimed, unless otherwise waived by the winner.”.

For one Brevard County woman, a $20 scratch-off ticket really paid off. The Florida Lottery announced Jordan Kowalak, 40, of Palm Bay claimed $1 million from the “$5,000,000 Cashword” scratch-off game.

1, Port St. Lucie.

Below are things to know about the game. It costs $20 to play the scratch-off game $5,000,000 Cashword.

W-i-n-n-e-r. Florida woman wins $1 million in Cashword Lottery scratch-off.

In many scratch-off games, players see if their scratch-off ticket matched any of the winning numbers, winning the prize shown for that number. For $5,000,000 Cashword, players get letters instead of numbers.

The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.91, according to the Florida Lottery. Best news ever for a Florida grandma.”Nana, you didn’t win $100,000, you won $1 million.

This list includes winners from Florida Lottery’s $2,000,000 Cashword and $5,000,000 Cashword scratch-off games. The $20 Florida Lottery scratch-off game, $5,000,000 Cashword, launched in May 2020 and features eight top prizes of $5 million and 24 second-tier prizes of $1 million, the site states.

As of July 16, 2023, the Florida Lottery site shows zero top prizes remaining, but three $1 million prizes remain. No.

Tickets cannot be purchased by mail, fax or online. There are more than 13,000 authorized Florida Lottery retailers here, the site states.

To claim a single-payment cash option, a winner has within the first 60 days after the applicable draw date to claim it. Florida Lottery says its scratch-off tickets and Fast Play game prizes “must be claimed within 60 days of the official end-of-game date.

According to the Florida Lottery, state law requires 80% of unclaimed prize funds from expired tickets be transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. The remaining 20% is returned to the prize pool for future drawings.

However, the site states, since May 25, 2022, the “names of lottery winners claiming prizes of $250,000 or greater will be temporarily exempt from public disclosure for 90 days from the date the prize is claimed, unless otherwise waived by the winner.”. Lottery experts and lawyers have said there are ways to remain anonymous if you win.

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A Palm Beach County man won big at Winn-Dixie. According to the Florida Lottery, John Freudberg of Jupiter claimed a $1 million prize from a “500x the Cash” (500 times the money) scratch-off ticket.

The site states Freudberg bought the ticket from Winn-Dixie, 8924 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens.

Mega Millions winning numbers:Friday, June 16, jackpot reaches $300 million. Below are things to know about the game.

Florida Lottery launched this game just over a year ago on Feb. 28, 2022.

The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-4.50. The scratch-off game features a top prize of $25 million, the largest for a Florida Lottery scratch-off game, and the best odds to become an instant millionaire, according to Florida Lottery’s website.

If that appears on the ticket, players get the prize shown for that symbol. If players get a “moneybag” symbol, they win double the prize amount shown for all 35 prizes.

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Tickets cannot be purchased by mail, fax or online. There are more than 13,000 authorized Florida Lottery retailers here, the site states.

To claim a single-payment cash option, a winner has within the first 60 days after the applicable draw date to claim it. Florida Lottery says its scratch-off tickets and Fast Play game prizes “must be claimed within 60 days of the official end-of-game date.

According to the Florida Lottery, state law requires 80% of unclaimed prize funds from expired tickets be transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. The remaining 20% is returned to the prize pool for future drawings.

game won, date won, and amount won to any third party who requests the information.”. However, the site states, since May 25, 2022, the “names of lottery winners claiming prizes of $250,000 or greater will be temporarily exempt from public disclosure for 90 days from the date the prize is claimed, unless otherwise waived by the winner.”.

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There were two winners in the drawings held Monday in the Florida Lottery, excluding Cash Pop. Games played Monday included: Powerball, Cash4Life, Cash Pop and Fantasy 5.

Here are Monday’s results: Winning numbers: 19-26-30-39-63 Powerball: 13 PowerPlay: 2.

Winning tickets: No winning tickets sold. Next jackpot draw date: Nov.

Second tier prize. Prize: $1 million.

Double Play winning numbers: 15-21-39-45-52 Powerball: 12. Winning tickets: No winning tickets sold.

The game’s starting jackpot is $20 million. Powerball has nine prize levels with lower-tier prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million and up to $2 million with Power Play and $10 million with Double Play.

Powerball with Power Play tickets cost $3 per play. Powerball with Double Play tickets cost $3 per play.

Common Powerball numbers: Powerball numbers you need to know: These most commonly drawn numbers could help you win. Winning numbers: 1-16-31-38-45 Cashball: 1.

Jackpot, $1,000 a week for life: No winners. Next jackpot draw date: Nov.

Cash4Life is a regional multi-state game that offers two lifetime prizes and great odds. For $2, players try to match five white balls (1-60) and the Cash Ball (1-4) to win the top prize $1,000 a day for life.

What to know about Florida Lottery: Ultimate guide to the Florida Lottery, Powerball and Mega Millions. Earn millions with scratch-off games: Florida Lottery scratch-off games offer prizes in the millions.

Jackpot: $54,991.21. Winning tickets: One.

Next jackpot draw date: Nov. 21.

If there is no top-prize winner, the top prize rolls down to the 4-of-5 and 3-of-5 prize levels. Tickets cost $1 per play.

Jackpot: $119,184.46. Winning tickets: One.

Next jackpot draw date: Nov. 21.

Morning: 14 winners. Matinee: 4 winners.

Evening: 4 winners. Late night: 9 winners.

Select a number from 1 to 15 or select up to 15 numbers. Then select the amount you want to play per number: $1, $2, or $5.

Lastly, select how many consecutive draws you want to play. you can select up to 10 consecutive draws.

A Mega Millions ticket sold in Jacksonville is worth an estimated $36 million after winning Tuesday night’s jackpot. The ticket was sold at a Publix grocery store on Roosevelt Boulevard.

On Aug. 8, a ticket sold at the Publix on Atlantic Boulevard in Neptune Beach won the $1.6 billion jackpot.

Big winner:$1.6B largest Mega Millions jackpot winning ticket is sold at a Florida Publix. There were a total of four winners in the drawings held Tuesday in the Florida Lottery, excluding Cash Pop.

Here are Tuesday’s results: Second tier prize.

The game’s jackpot starts at $20 million and rolls over until all six numbers are matched. Mega Millions has nine prize levels with lower-tier prizes ranging from $2 to $1 million and up to $5 million with Megaplier.

Select or quick pick the first six numbers from 1 through 46, and the second and third set of numbers will automatically be quick pick. Win by matching three or more numbers from the same set to the winning numbers drawn.

Add combo, for $1 more, for an extra chance to win prizes up to $10,000. Cash4Life is a regional multi-state game that offers two lifetime prizes and great odds.

If you match only the five white balls you win the second prize of $1,000 a week for life. What to know about Florida Lottery:Ultimate guide to the Florida Lottery, Powerball and Mega Millions.

Fantasy 5 is a daily draw game with a top prize of approximately $100,000 if won by a single winner. If there is no top-prize winner, the top prize rolls down to the 4-of-5 and 3-of-5 prize levels.

If there is no top prize winner, the money in the top prize pool rolls down and is shared equally among winners who picked four out of the five numbers, with a maximum prize of $555 per winner. Cash Pop gives players a chance to win prizes up to $1,250 by matching just one number.

Then select the amount you want to play per number: $1, $2, or $5. The dollar amount played determines the cash prize you could win.

you can select up to 10 consecutive draws.

The Powerball jackpot for the next drawing on Wednesday has climbed to $500 million after there was no winner in Monday’s drawing. The numbers were pulled at 11 p.m.

While the current prize doesn’t yet crack the top 10 jackpots in the game’s history, the potential winner will still net a king’s ransom, as the cash option is valued at $240.7 million. If the lucky person is in one of 17 states where winners can collect Powerball prizes anonymously, we may never know who they are.

Dream homes, vacations and bills:Where have past lottery winners spent their money.

The Powerball was 20 and the Power Play was 3X. In addition to no jackpot winners on Monday, there were also no Match 5 + Power Play $2 million winners or Match 5 $1 million winners.

Players have a one in 292,201,338 shot at winning the grand prize, a one in 11,688,053.52 shot at winning the $1 million prize and a one in 24.87 chance of winning any prize. Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores.

You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Texas, Washington D.C.

The Jackpocket app allows you to pick your lottery game and numbers, place your order, see your ticket and collect your winnings all using your phone or home computer. Jackpocket is the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network.

Must be 18+, 21+ in AZ and 19+ in NE. Not affiliated with any State Lottery.

Call 1-877-8-HOPE-NY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY). 1-800-327-5050 (MA).

1-800-981-0023 (PR). 1-800-GAMBLER (all others).

There were two winners in the games held June 14 in the Florida Lottery., with a winning ticket sold in the Florida Lotto worth $44 million. Games played Wednesday included: Powerball, Florida Lotto, Cash4Life, Cash Pop and Fantasy 5.

Powerball is a multi-state, multimillion-dollar-jackpot game offered in 48 Lottery jurisdictions, including Florida. The game’s starting jackpot is $20 million.

Powerball tickets cost $2 per play. Powerball with Power Play tickets cost $3 per play.

Powerball with Power Play and Double Play tickets cost $4 per play. More on Powerball:Powerball numbers for Wednesday, June 14, 2023.

With Florida Lotto, every ticket purchased includes a randomly generated “multiplier” number that automatically increases non-jackpot cash prizes by two, three, four, five or 10 times. All Florida Lotto tickets cost $2 per play for the base game.

Double Play costs $1 more per play. Cash4Life is a regional multi-state game that offers two lifetime prizes and great odds.

If you match only the five white balls you win the second prize of $1,000 a week for life. Cash Pop gives players a chance to win prizes up to $1,250 by matching just one number.

Then select the amount you want to play per number: $1, $2, or $5. The dollar amount played determines the cash prize you could win.

you can select up to 10 consecutive draws. Fantasy 5 is a daily draw game with a top prize of approximately $100,000 if won by a single winner.

Tickets cost $1 per play. If there is no top prize winner, the money in the top prize pool rolls down and is shared equally among winners who picked four out of the five numbers, with a maximum prize of $555 per winner.

ONE winner has made 500 times her cash back while playing the Florida lottery. A stop at the Publix in Cape Coral brought Florida resident Jenny Marotzke a $1million prize.

In the scratch-off game, winners had to match their numbers for a range of winning digits.

If the winning numbers matched any of players’ bonus numbers, they could secure a $500 bonus winning. The odds of winning Jenny’s game were roughly one in 267,739.

Jenny isn’t the only lottery player to win big recently. Also in Florida, two people who live only four miles away from each other both won $1 million from a $50 scratch-off game.

One man who routinely visited Michigan for business picked up a lottery ticket in Ann Arbor each time he was there, and it finally paid off — winning him a $1million prize. Winning such a huge lottery drawing is still incredibly rare, so it’s important to make sure you play responsibly.

There are several strategies to increase your odds of winning as well. Pooling is one of the best methods.

Then you split the prize among all the players. One Massachussetts woman revealed she won a $100,000 prize by using a combination of birthdates and her favorite numbers.

There were no winners in the drawings held Thursday in the Florida Lottery, excluding Cash Pop. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t a big lottery winner.

Lucie man won $5 million playing a scratch-off game, according to a recent announcement from the Florida Lottery. Travis Hall, 44, of Port St.

He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $3,994,698. “I stopped at Publix to grab a sub and decided to try my luck with a $20 Scratch-Off,” Hall told lottery officials.

After waiting days to scratch the ticket, I handed it to my wife. my hands were trembling from disbelief at what I was seeing.”.

Another winning scratch-off ticket was sold in Odessa. Anila Siddiqui, 59, of New Port Richey, claimed a $1 million prize from the $5,000,000 Cashword scratch-off game.

Siddiqui purchased her winning ticket from the Stop 54 Convenience Store on Black Lake Road in Odessa. Games played Thursday included: Cash4Life, Cash Pop and Fantasy 5.

Cash4Life is a regional multi-state game that offers two lifetime prizes and great odds. For $2, players try to match five white balls (1-60) and the Cash Ball (1-4) to win the top prize $1,000 a day for life.

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If there is no top-prize winner, the top prize rolls down to the 4-of-5 and 3-of-5 prize levels. Tickets cost $1 per play.

Cash Pop gives players a chance to win prizes up to $1,250 by matching just one number. Select a number from 1 to 15 or select up to 15 numbers.

The dollar amount played determines the cash prize you could win. Lastly, select how many consecutive draws you want to play.

It was a weekend of Fantasy 5 wins in the Florida Lottery, with three winning tickets for the evening draw Sunday night splitting a $35,698.77 jackpot. The winning tickets were sold at a Palm Food Store in Hialeah, a Publix in Coral Springs, and a Stop n Go in Hollywood.

Tickets sold at a Circle K in Hudson and one in a Fort Myers Publix split $30,555.15 in the afternoon and tickets sold at an Ocala Publix and a Pubix Liquor Store in Clearwater split $69,125.50 in the evening. Friday night, a quick pick sold at a Circle K in Key West won $60,077.69 in the Fantasy 5 evening draw.

Sorry. No one won the Powerball Saturday night, which is now an estimated $477 million jackpot for tonight’s drawing.

Here are Sunday’s results: Winning numbers: 2-4-18-32-40 Cashball: 3.

Jackpot, $1,000 a week for life: No winners. Next jackpot draw date: Dec.

Cash4Life is a regional multi-state game that offers two lifetime prizes and great odds. For $2, players try to match five white balls (1-60) and the Cash Ball (1-4) to win the top prize $1,000 a day for life.

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Jackpot: Rolldown. Winning tickets: No winning tickets sold.

Fantasy 5 is a daily draw game with a top prize of approximately $100,000 if won by a single winner. If there is no top-prize winner, the top prize rolls down to the 4-of-5 and 3-of-5 prize levels.

Winning numbers evening drawing: 4-15-18-20-32. Jackpot: $35,698.77.

Palm Food Store, 17851 NW 78th Avenue, Hialeah. Publix #678, 5950 Coral Ridge Drive, Coral Springs.

Next jackpot draw date: Dec. 11.

Morning: 2 winners. Matinee: 15 winners.

Evening: 5 winners. Late night: 15 winners.

Select a number from 1 to 15 or select up to 15 numbers. Then select the amount you want to play per number: $1, $2, or $5.

Lastly, select how many consecutive draws you want to play. you can select up to 10 consecutive draws.

8 Florida Lottery numbers: MegaMillions: 21-26-53-66-70 Megaball: 13 Megaplier: 3.

Cash4Life: 22-37-40-52-59 Cashball: 3. Fantasy 5:

Evening drawing: 1-5-15-30-34. Saturday, Dec.

Powerball: 5-25-26-40-60 Powerball: 1 PowerPlay: 2. Double Play: 8-14-23-29-37 Powerball: 18.

Double Play: 2-10-14-30-48-49. Cash4Life: 21-30-34-42-52 Cashball: 1.

Midday drawing: 5-9-24-27-32. Evening drawing: 3-11-16-18-35.

Lotto Sunday. Fantasy 5 winning tickets.

A Quincy, Florida woman won a million dollars by scratching a ticket. Tammy Kenon, 55, claimed a $1 million top prize from the Florida 50X the Cash game and opted for the one-time, lump-sum payment of $695,000.00, the Florida Lottery said.

The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning ticket. The scratch-off game, which launched in October 2022, features four top prizes of $1,000,000.

Tickets for the scratch-off game cost $5. Match any of your numbers to any of the winning numbers to win the prize shown for that number.

Match any of the winning numbers to either of the bonus spot numbers to instantly win $50 or $100. Non-winning Florida 50X the Cash tickets are eligible to be entered in the Florida Lottery’s Holiday Cash Bonus Play promotion for a chance to win cash prizes.

Odds of winning:.

Since 2009, Khalil Audi of Cudahy has cashed in lottery tickets 33 times to the tune of about $80,000. His $10,000 win from Badger Cash Blowout.

When he bought a $30 Super Millions scratch-off ticket, he had a one-in-200,000 shot of winning $5,000 — the same odds as giving birth to conjoined twins. But that ticket cashed, too.

According to Wisconsin Lottery data obtained by Gaming the Lottery, an international investigation into the global lottery industry, the state’s most frequent winner was Annie Mason of Milwaukee. Mason bought tickets worth $600 or more 65 times since 2000, for total winnings of $466,780.

In that same time, 11 people have cashed 20 or more winning tickets of at least $600, earning prizes totaling $100,000 or more each. Reached at work — the store where he has scored nearly all of his lottery wins — Audi declined to comment.

The lottery has provided more than $4.1 billion in property tax relief and at least $7.8 billion in prizes since it was launched in 1988. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism found that at least three of the top 13 players who have won 20 times or more in recent years have close ties to the retailers selling them the winning tickets — including Audi, who works at Charlie’s Liquor & Tobacco Mart, home to 30 of his 33 wins.

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In the United States, news reports from Pennsylvania, Florida, Massachusetts and other states have revealed suspicious pockets of frequent winners, in some cases owners or clerks at stores that sell lottery tickets. A 2009 Iowa Ombudsman report recommended that Iowa’s lottery consider banning retail employees from playing the lottery at stores where they work to ensure the games’ integrity.

The Iowa review found several store owners and their employees among those exhibiting against-the-odds luck. One clerk had claimed eight prizes for a total of $266,000 in less than one year’s time at the store where he worked, the ombudsman found.

Lottery officials told the newspaper that such a requirement would be unworkable and add unnecessary government bureaucracy. In Wisconsin, retailers also get bonuses of up to $100,000 when they sell winning tickets, providing further monetary incentive to bend the system in their favor, one expert said.

He was cleared in 2005. In addition, a 2010 sting operation involving hundreds of retailers in Wisconsin found five clerks took winning tickets, each worth $5,000, from law enforcement officers posing as customers.

The other three took the tickets knowing they were winners. Two cashed them and were later prosecuted, she said.

Adler declined to describe the specific mechanisms the state agency uses to guard against retailers or others gaming the system, saying it could tip off fraudsters about how to cheat. She said there has been just one completed investigation into lottery fraud since 2012.

There are several ways people — mainly employees, store owners or lottery insiders — have cheated lotteries across the nation: Officials from the Wisconsin Lottery say frequent winning is not necessarily evidence of wrongdoing.

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Albert said some people play the lottery professionally, such as monitoring games’ payouts, and then buying tickets in bulk when the game’s payouts are far below normal. “There are a couple of different ways to win the lottery frequently.

Wisconsin Lottery data do not show how often people play the lottery, how much each person spends or what games they play. That makes it impossible to calculate exactly what odds these frequent winners are beating — and difficult to figure out if they are cheating.

Stark is a professor of statistics at the University of California-Berkeley who has studied lottery odds for years. He has devised a method to estimate the minimum amount of money these winners would need to spend on the lottery to have a one-in-10-million chance of winning.

“It’s really trying to be careful, and not accuse anybody of anything where there was even a slim chance of where they might have just done this through just honest play,” Stark said. Stark said most of Wisconsin’s frequent winners do not appear to be particularly suspicious, based on his analysis.

In the case of Audi, Stark said he would have to spend $191,697 over eight years, or about $66 a day, to have a one-in-10-million chance of winning his $78,300 in prizes. Stark said people with connections to the places where they bought their winning tickets also raise questions.

He has claimed 21 winning tickets for $128,417, with at least 20 wins coming at Oklahoma Liquor in Milwaukee, where he has worked. The center was unable to reach Kazik, who lives in Oak Creek, for comment.

Singh could not be reached for comment. Stark also found unlikely odds for one frequent winner, Jeffrey Hintz, whose extreme luck also drew the attention of Wisconsin Lottery officials.

But the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, which administers the lottery, investigated — and cleared — Hintz more than a decade ago. In 2005, Hintz, of Bonduel, won $1,000 five weeks in a row from the Wisconsin Lottery’s Super 2nd Chance game, in which players send in envelopes with $5 worth of losing tickets.

Following Hintz’s 2005 lucky streak, officials launched an investigation to determine if his winnings were legitimate. According to an internal review from the Department of Revenue, Hintz won the games fairly by sending in at least 500 envelopes a week containing $2,500 in losing tickets, reducing his odds to as little as one-in-seven.

That is a tiny fraction of the payout, which totaled $363 million in fiscal year 2017 alone. Stark said based on the lack of investigations, prosecutions and restitution — along with the “strong evidence of fraud” he detected among some of Wisconsin’s frequent winners — “there doesn’t seem to be meaningful enforcement.”.

The wall around the checkout is lined with pictures of past winners. A name that pops up at Akhtar’s store around a dozen times: Andrew Ylvisaker, with a lot of $1,000 prizes and one for $100,000.

Ylvisaker has won 28 times for a total of just over $1.1 million since 2007, which makes him one of the state’s most prolific winners. Akhtar said Ylvisaker does not work at his store but comes in two or three times a week and usually spends roughly $160 on tickets each time — more if he is winning.

There is no evidence that any of the winnings at Akhtar’s store were the result of wrongdoing. Stark said that, in any case, lottery officials tend not to focus much on fraud because it generally does not affect revenue.

A Pompano Beach man dropped by the Florida Lottery’s West Palm Beach district office and claimed a million-dollar jackpot. Ronald Marc, 51, claimed a $1 million top prize from the $5 Gold Rush Doubler scratch-off game and opted for the one-time, lump-sum payment of $685,000.00, the Florida Lottery said in a release.

That Publix will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning ticket. The scratch-off game, which launched in January 2022, features 28 top prizes of $1,000,000.

Unsurprisingly, tickets for the scratch-off game cost $5. Match any of your numbers to any winning number and win the prize shown for that number.

A “GOLD BAR” symbol gets you double the prize shown. Get a gold bar in the Doubler box and win double all 12 prizes.

Odds of winning: $1 million: 1-in-2,010,516.

$2,000: 1-in-24,037. $1,000: 1-in-14,956.

$150: 1-in-1,239. $100: 1-in-348.

$40: 1-in-160. $25: 1-in-160.

$10: 1-in-10. $5: 1-in-9.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida Lottery: Broward County man wins $1 million in scratch-off.

It seems one Boynton Beach resident had a lucky Thanksgiving week. Last week, the Florida Lottery announced 47-year-old Mario Torres claimed a $1 million prize from the Gold Rush Limited scratch-off game at lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.

Torres purchased his winning ticket from Kenny’s Mart, 214 East Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach. Kenny’s will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Florida Lottery ticket, the site states.

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Players see if their scratch-off ticket matched any of the winning numbers, winning the prize shown for that number. If there’s a 5X or 10X symbol, players will win five or 10 times the prize shown for that symbol.

Cha-ching. Powerball ticket from a Florida Publix wins $1 million.

The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.65. There are 32 prizes of $5 million (the top prize) with the odds of winning at 1-in-2,362,500.

27, 2023, the Florida Lottery site states there are nine top prizes left in this game. For the second-highest prize of $1 million, of which there are 100 available in the Florida Lottery game, players have a 1-in-756,000 chance.

27, the site states there are 26 remaining $1 million prizes in this game. Gold Rush Limited, launched in September 2021, features 32 top prizes of $5 million and 100 prizes of $1 million, the Florida Lottery site states.

Prizes range from $20, the cost of the ticket, to $5 million. There are more than 13,000 authorized Florida Lottery retailers here, the site states.

To claim a single-payment cash option, a winner has within the first 60 days after the applicable draw date to claim it. Florida Lottery says its scratch-off tickets and Fast Play game prizes “must be claimed within 60 days of the official end-of-game date.

According to the Florida Lottery, state law requires 80% of unclaimed prize funds from expired tickets be transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. The remaining 20% is returned to the prize pool for future drawings.

However, the site states, since May 25, 2022, the “names of lottery winners claiming prizes of $250,000 or greater will be temporarily exempt from public disclosure for 90 days from the date the prize is claimed, unless otherwise waived by the winner.”. Lottery experts and lawyers have said there are ways to remain anonymous if you win.

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The Florida Lottery’s aggressive campaign to sell more scratch-off tickets has enticed the state’s poorest residents the most. In the areas of highest poverty — where people are most attracted to scratch-off games — 1 in 6 households spent at least $10 of every $1,000 in income on the games in 2010.

Although scratch-off sales have surged statewide, a Sun Sentinel analysis found: — Sales of scratch-offs in high-poverty areas rose almost three times as fast as other areas.

— Brisk scratch-off sales did not dramatically increase the amount of money raised for education, which the lottery touts as one of its chief benefits. Critics have long characterized the lottery as a regressive tax, taking more money from the poor than from the rich.

“The lottery, and in particular scratchers, are more attractive to people of lower socioeconomic status,” said Alan Cooke, a University of Florida marketing professor who has researched scratch-off games. “For those people who are in circumstances where their continued cash flow is not ever going to allow them to get out of debt, why wouldn’t they buy scratchers.

It gives them hope.”. The lottery has made it much easier and appealing to buy those scratchers, adding more games for higher prices, deploying self-service vending machines, boosting overall advertising spending and buying more ads from media that serve minorities.

They attribute the success of scratch-offs to an aggressive, broad-based marketing push. It is important, lottery spokeswoman Shelly Gerteisen said, to appeal “to a wide demographic.”.

The $4 million increase was split equally between mass media outlets and those serving minority audiences, but the share of money targeting minorities rose 68 percent. Lottery ads appear in 38 percent more media outlets with minority audiences, compared with a 10 percent increase for other media.

Last year, the amount came to 18 percent, lottery records show. For example, the lottery spent no money advertising in Hispanic media in Fort Myers or West Palm Beach in 2010, but four years later it spent $642,000 in Fort Myers and $468,000 in West Palm Beach.

“Most of our retailers are located in heavily populated business districts, not in residential areas,” said spokeswoman Taylor Nash, so it’s possible that people buy tickets in industrial areas where poorer people live, even if the purchasers live elsewhere. Overall, sales of scratch-off games rose from $2 billion in 2010 to $3.7 billion last year.

Sales in high-poverty areas rose 153 percent from 2010 to 2015, compared with 53 percent in other areas, the Sun Sentinel found. Adults in high-poverty areas spent an average of $385 in 2015 on scratch-off tickets, a 57 percent increase over 2010.

A sample: — In the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami, where 40 percent of families live below the poverty level, per capita spending on scratch-off tickets nearly doubled over five years, with the average household spending $431 on them in 2015.

— And in a section of Lake Worth, scratch-off purchases reached $361 per capita in 2015, an 88 percent increase over 2010. Thirty percent of the residents in that area live below the poverty level, compared with 17 percent statewide.

The Lottery now offers 83 scratch-off games with prices ranging from $1 to $25. Until 2013, the lottery offered one $20 scratch-off game.

“When the lottery was pitched back in 1986, it was pitched as a once-a-week draw game,” said Paul Seago, executive director of the anti-gambling group No Casinos. But before the Lotto terminals were even installed, the lottery began to sell scratch-off games, he said.

It began installing self-service kiosks in major retailers in 2013 and placed 500 of them over the next two years. Previously, players had to stand in line at customer service to buy tickets.

Total sales at these kiosks, including both scratch-off tickets and draw games, came to $257 million in 2015, although they still represent only a fraction of the Lottery’s $5.6 billion in total sales. Lottery ads proclaim that a portion of profits help fund education, but the scratch-off rage has not boosted that amount significantly.

Between 2014 and 2015, the amount rose by just $1 million. That’s partly because the big jump in scratch-offs came as sales of Lotto and Powerball fell, which the lottery attributes to sales dropping after surging during high jackpots.

The fund pays for scholarships, the debt from bonds used for school construction, expanded financial aid for higher education and reduced class sizes.