The Florida Lottery announced that 19-year-old Hyury Oliveira, of Pompano Beach, claimed a top prize from the $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE SPECTACULAR scratch-off game at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
The Broward County winner chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $640,000.00.
Oliveira purchased his winning ticket from A & J Seabra Supermarket, located at 839 West Sample Road in Deerfield Beach. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.
The $50 scratch-off game, $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE SPECTACULAR, features two top prizes of $1 million a year for life and 234 prizes of $1 million. Additionally, this ticket is filled with more than $1.6 billion in cash prizes.
The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-4.50.
Scratch-off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 72 percent of ticket sales in fiscal year 2022-2023. Additionally, since inception, scratch-off games have awarded more than $61.9 billion in prizes, created 2,103 millionaires, and generated more than $18.95 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 13,500 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $94.2 billion in prizes and made more than 4,000 people millionaires.
OK, he only won one million dollars, after taxes he was given $640,000.00 dollars. If his scratch off ticket won the top prize of 25 million dollars, then he would have walk away with 1 million for the next 25 years, excluding taxes. Congrats to him, $640,000 dollars is a very nice amount of money to do something good in your life.
I will appreciate if I can win that kind of money for me and my family n help othing and i believe in God that will help me to help people that is down
There is love in my heart to help others I believe in to see people help in life God bless me to help othing that love