A Florida woman won $5 million in the Florida Lottery’s CASHWORD scratch-off game.
Janice Velez, of Kissimmee, had purchased the winning ticket after stopping at a gas station, Florida Lottery officials confirmed to local media on Friday.
The woman claimed the jackpot this week at Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee and elected to receive her winnings in a lump sum payment of $3,915,000.
The RaceTrac gas station in Kissimmee will receive an additional 10,000 commission for selling the winning scratch-off.
CASHWORD Scratch-Off tickets are $20. The game offers was launched in May 2020 and offers eight main prizes of 5 million and 24 second tier prizes of 1 million.
The overall odds of winning the game are 1 in 2.91.
In August, a Florida woman won un million dollars with a scratch off from the state lottery and elected to receive his winnings as a lump sum payment of $820,000.
Vanessa Tirado-Gutierrez, 53, of DeFuniak Springs, claimed her $1 million prize from the 500X The Cash scratch-off game at Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $44 billion to improve education and sending more than 950,000 students to college through the Bright Futures scholarship program.
It reinvests 99 percent of its revenues into Florida’s economy through the payment of prizes, commissions to more than 13,500 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid out more than $87.5 billion in prizes and made more than 3,500 millionaires.
