The Florida Lottery announced that Anthony Mandella, 62, of Cape Coral, claimed a $1 million top prize from the STRUCK BY LUCK Scratch-Off game at the Lottery’s Fort Myers District office.
He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $880,000.00.
Mandella purchased his winning ticket from 7-Eleven, located at 8100 College Parkway in Fort Myers.
The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.
The STRUCK BY LUCK game gives players the chance to win electrifying prizes of up to $1 million. This game is packed with 7 million winning tickets and more than $176.4 million in cash prizes. The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-3.36.
Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 75 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $1.3 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2020-21.
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