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Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ocoee woman wins one million playing scratch-off game
The Florida Lottery announces that Syalon Britten, 46, of Ocoee, claimed a $1 million prize from the '$1,000,000 A Year for Life Spectacular'Scratch-Off game'. The large-money prize winner, Syalon Britten, chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $640,000.00. Britten purchased her winning ticket from Discount Beverages & Smoke. The discount store is located at 207 US Highway 441/27 in Lady Lake. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off game offers two top prizes of $1 million a year for life and 234 $1 million prizes! Additionally, this ticket contains more than $1.6 billion in cash prizes. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
A spectacular win! Orange County woman wins $1M in Florida Lottery scratch-off game
An Orange County woman is a millionaire after winning $1 million from the $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE SPECTACULAR scratch-off game from the Florida Lottery. Syalon Britten, of Ocoee, claimed the $1 million top prize after purchasing her ticket from Discount Beverages & Smoke, located at 207 US Highway 441/27 in Lady Lake. The 46-year-old chose to receive her winnings as a one-time lump-sum payment of $640,000. The store that sold the winning ticket received a $2,000 bonus commission. The $50 scratch-off game features two top prizes of $1 million a year for life and 234 prizes of $1 million and is filled with more than $1.6 billion in cash prizes. Scratch-off games made up 74% of ticket sales in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. Since their inception, scratch-off games have generated more than $19.80 billion for the Education Enhancement Trust Fund and are responsible for contributing more than $48 billion to enhance education and sending more than one million students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. Additionally, since its inception, scratch-off games have awarded more than $65.5 billion in prizes, creating 2,283 millionaires. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $98.6 billion in prizes and made more than 4,200 people millionaires, according to lottery here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
