The Florida Lottery recently announced that Jeremy Smith, of Lillian, Alabama, claimed a $2 million prize from the TRIPLE 777 scratch-off game.
The Alabama man chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $1,280,000.
Smith purchased his winning ticket from CEFCO Convenience Store, located at 5330 Gulf Breeze Parkway in Gulf Breeze. The retailer received a $4,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.
The $10 scratch-off game, TRIPLE 777, features more than six million winning tickets and offers over $158.8 in total cash prizes, including eight top prizes of $2 million.
With overall odds of 1-in-3.51, players can win up to 15 times.
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 $47 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.
