The Florida Lottery has some exciting news! They just launched several new games plus a limited time raffle that gives 100 players an opportunity to win $500 cash. The Florida Lottery also added four new scratch-off games to their line up including: Fast Bucks, Aces and 8s, Hit and Win, and $5 Million Triple Match.
It’s super easy to be entered into the raffle! All you have to do is purchase a single $10 or more Powerball, Mega Million, CashPop or Florida Lotto ticket. According to FloridaToday, once you buy one, you will receive a free raffle ticket and automatically entered into the next available weekly drawing. The raffle drawings happen weekly. Altogether, there will be six weekly drawings held every Monday starting Sept. 25 – Oct. 30. During each drawing, 100 players will each win $500 cash! That means there will be a total of 600 raffle winners that will win $300,000 in total cash prizes.
Why You Want To Play The Florida Lottery:
The thrill of playing a scratch-off lottery ticket and uncovering a potential prize is what makes these tickets so exciting. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small or large life-changing jackpot, the suspense keeps players coming back. Also, most of the games are easy to figure out. By making the game simple, it keeps it accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. They offer various themes and designs for all the different scratch-off tickets, which can promote popular brands or even events. One of their favorite add-ons is the puzzles and bonus games on the ticket. It seems to add an extra layer of entertainment while scratching off the game. Most scratch off tickets are usually impulse buys. Depending how they look or where they’re placed it’s smarter to make it a financial decision than not. Playing can be super fun and exciting but you want to make you pick a ticket that has better odds to win.
Here Are The 10 Largest Powerball Jackpots In History
10. $590.5 million: May 18, 2013 (Florida)
Gloria Mackenzie, 84, won the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot at the time. She turned in her ticket more than two weeks after the $590.5 million Powerball winning numbers were announced.
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9. $632.6 million: Jan. 5, 2022 (California, Wisconsin)
The winners split the $632.6 million jackpot with the option of $450.2 million cash option.
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8. $687.8 million: Oct. 27, 2018 (Iowa, New York)
The huge $687.8 million jackpot was won by two Powerball players and at the time making it the third-largest prize in the game’s history.
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7. $699.8 million: Oct. 4, 2021 (California)
A single ticket sold in California was the winner of a Powerball jackpot at almost $700 million!
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6. $731.1 million: Jan. 20, 2021 (Maryland)
One winning ticket sold for $731.1 million jackpot was a cash value of $546.8 million.
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5. $754.6 million: Feb. 6, 2023 (Washington)
One ticket was the big winner out of Washington state winning $754.6 million Powerball jackpot for a cash value of $407.2 million.
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4. $758.7 million: Aug. 23, 2017 (Massachusetts)
Mavis Wanczyk, 53, was the largest single lottery jackpot of $758.7 million!
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3. $768.4 million: March 27, 2019 (Wisconsin)
Manuel Franco, who was a Wisconsin resident became the winner of the $768.4 million Powerball jackpot.
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2. $1.586 billion: Jan. 13, 2016 (California, Florida, Tennessee)
At the time it was the world’s biggest lottery jackpot! Winning over $1.5 billion was a three-way split of $528 million each.
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1. $2.04 billion: Nov. 7, 2022 (California)
California resident Edwin Castro was the only winner of the record-breaking jackpot $2.04 billion on Nov. 7, 2022.
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