$50 scratch-off ticket turns into $1M prize for Miami-Dade man

MIAMI – A 24-year-old antheral from Miami-Dade County won a $1 cardinal prize aft playing Florida Lottery scratch-off game.

Randy Villalpando claimed the prize from the 500X The Cash Scratch-Off crippled astatine the Lottery’s Miami District Office. He chose to person his winnings arsenic a one-time, lump-sum outgo of $640,000, Lottery officials confirmed successful a quality merchandise Thursday.

They said Villalpando purchased the $50 winning summons astatine El Palacio Supermarket, located astatine 995 Southwest Fifth Street successful Miami. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus committee for selling the winning ticket.

The 500X THE CASH crippled features a apical prize of $25 cardinal — the largest ever offered connected a Florida Scratch-Off summons — and wide likelihood of winning are 1-in-4.23,“ the Lottery wrote successful a quality release. ”The crippled includes much than $1.66 cardinal successful full currency prizes."

According to the Florida Lottery, Scratch-Off games relationship for astir 74% of summons income during the 2023–2024 fiscal year. Since their inception, Scratch-Offs person generated much than $19.8 cardinal for the state’s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, awarded implicit $65.5 cardinal successful prizes, and created 2,283 millionaires.

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