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The Florida Lottery is one of the most lucrative single-state lottery systems in the United States with numerous On-line and Scratch-Off games offering players a wide variety of prize levels. more...

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The minimum age to purchase a Florida Lottery ticket, regardless of game, is 18.

History

It began operation on January 12, 1988 by order of a constitutional amendment approved by Florida voters by a 2-to-1 margin in the general election of November 4, 1986. The point of the Lottery was to give extra funding to state education, and it was mandated that 35% of all revenue go to the state Department of Education. The Bright Futures scholarship program is funded by the Florida Lottery.

The first game offered by Florida Lottery was Millionaire, a $1 Scratch-Off game with a US$1 million annuity prize. Seventeen days of ticket sales allowed for the Lottery Commission to repay with interest the initial US$15.5 million bond from Florida's General Revenue Fund that got it going.

The first On-line number-drawing games offered by the Florida Lottery were CASH 3™ and FLORIDA LOTTO™, which both started on April 29, 1988. Florida Lotto, the six-number game with multi-million-dollar USD jackpots, had its initial jackpot at US$2 million, and was played every Saturday initially, with the first drawing being April 30. From that point on, jackpots would start at $6 million and rollover, or increase, if no one won. Josie Moore of Port Charlotte, Florida, won the first jackpot on May 28 It was worth US$14 million, and paid in an annuity of 20 yearly payments. Cash 3 had a US$500 jackpot.

On September 3, Sheelah Ryan of Winter Springs, Florida, won the largest single lottery jackpot in world history to that point, a jackpot of US$55.16 million. She was the 10th FLORIDA LOTTO WINNER. However, the Florida Lotto cash option was still 10 years away. She died before receiving all her winnings.

On April 28, 1989, the Florida Lottery expanded with FANTASY 5, a five-number on-line drawing game played every Tuesday and Friday initially. Its jackpots were typically in the tens of thousands of dollars, but had reached over one million dollars through rollovers.

The first US$100 million FLORIDA LOTTO jackpot in world history came about on the September 14, 1990, drawing. Six players split a US$106.5 million jackpot, each getting $17.75 million. That day, the Florida Lottery set a record with US$30 million in revenue from LOTTO alone.

In 1991, a daily four-number On-line game, PLAY 4, is introduced on July 4, with a top prize of $5,000. December 10 sees the advent of the FLORIDA LOTTO month, where minimum jackpots and rollovers were guaranteed at US$10 million for the Christmas season.

On September 27, 1993, the first $2 Scratch-Off game, BINGO, was introduced. Through variants, it is the longest-running Scratch-Off game in the Florida Lottery.

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