The Florida Lottery recently announced that Jason Henderson, of Chuluota, claimed a $1 million top prize from The Price Is Right scratch-off game at Lottery’s Headquarters in Tallahassee.
The Central Florida winner chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $640,000.00.
The Seminole County man purchased his winning ticket from MJM Food Store, located at 670 South County Road 419 in Chuluota. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.
The $5 scratch-off game, THE PRICE IS RIGHT™, offers eight top prizes of $1 million. With more than $79 million in total cash prizes, this game also features more than 5.5 million winning tickets.
The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-4.00. On the Florida Lottery site, it states there are still multiple $1 million prizes remaining, along with many other prizes in smaller amounts like $50,000 or $10,000 and below.
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. Since their 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 Price Is Right®/© is licensed by Fremantle (FremantleMedia Netherlands B.V. 2023).
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 over $95.7 billion in prizes and made more than 4,000 people millionaires.
