A Central Florida man won the top prize playing the $50,000 A Year For Life scratch-off game.
The Florida Lottery announced that Edin Galindo, of Tampa, claimed the top prize from the $50,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE scratch-off game at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
The Hillsborough County winner chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $815,000.00.
“I was very excited and shocked that I won,” Galindo said.
He purchased his winning ticket from Quick Mart, located at 2209 East Bearss Avenue in Tampa. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.
Turn $2 into a lifetime of adventures with the $50,000 A Year For Life game. This scratch-off game features more than 8.4 million winning tickets and over $52 million in cash prizes, including eight top prizes of $50,000 a year for life.
The overall odds are 1-in-4.43.
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.
