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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2022

CITRUS COUNTY MAN GETS A $1 MILLION LUCKY BREAK
AFTER PLAYING THE $1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE SCRATCH-OFF GAME

TALLAHASSEE -The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announces that Frank O'Dell, of Hernando, claimed a top prize from the $1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $930,000.00.

"I've never been very lucky," O'Dell told the Florida Lottery. "But I think it's safe to say that my luck has finally changed and now I'm set for life!"

O?Dell purchased his winning ticket from Circle K, located at 2025 North Lecanto Highway in Lecanto. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.

Players can win more than $54.5 million in cash prizes when they play the $1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game! The $2 game offers eight top prizes of $1,000 a week for life. The game's overall odds of winning are one-in-4.43.

Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery's portfolio of games, comprising approximately 75 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $1.3 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2020-21.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $40 billion to enhance education and sending more than 917,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida's economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $79.1 billion in prizes and made more than 3,100 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

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