The Florida Lottery recently announced that Efren Villamar Herrera, of Orlando, claimed a $1 million prize from the $20 Gold Rush Limited scratch-off game.
The Orange County man chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $795,000.00.
The Central Florida winner purchased his winning ticket from Wawa, located at 3100 South Orange Avenue in Orlando. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.
He claimed the prize at the Lottery’s Orlando District Office.
The $20 scratch-off game, GOLD RUSH LIMITED, features 32 top prizes of $5 million and 100 prizes of $1 million. Additionally, this ticket is filled with more than 33,000 prizes of $1,000 to $100,000.
The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.65.
Scratch-off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 74 percent of ticket sales in fiscal year 2023-2024. Additionally, since inception, scratch-off games have awarded more than $63.1 billion in prizes, created 2,175 millionaires, and generated more than $19.24 billion for the state’s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF).
The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $46 billion to enhance education and sending more than 983,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,600 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $95.7 billion in prizes and made more than 4,000 people millionaires.
