FLORIDA LOTTERY HOLDS FINAL
$250000 TREASURE TREE SECOND CHANCE DRAWING
One lucky Lottery player will shop till they drop!
TALLAHASSEE The Florida Lotterys$250000 Treasure Tree Holiday Shopping Second Chance promotion ended today with one lucky player Ralph Nero of Winter Springs winning the last remaining $5000 Simon Mall Visa gift card.From December 15 2009 through March 29 2010 more than 59000 nonwinning $250000 TREASURE TREE ScratchOff tickets were entered in the second chance promotion on the Lotterys Web site.
The first drawing held Tuesday December 15 2009 awarded nine second chance prize winners a $5000 Simon Mall Visa gift card 10 winners a $1000 gift card and 30 winners a $500 gift card. Offered through a Florida Lottery partnership with Simon Mall the Simon Visa gift card may be used almost anywhere Visa is accepted.For a complete list of winners in this promotion visit the Second Chance section of the Lotterys Web site at www.flalottery.com.
Sales for the limitedtime ScratchOff game $250000 TREASURE TREE ended on March 19.The $5 ScratchOff game featured eight top prizes of $250000 and more than $10000000 in prizes from $30 to $10000.To date the game has paid more than $13 million in prizes to Lottery players.Winners must claim their ScratchOff prizes within 60 days of the endofgame date.
Florida voters by a twotoone margin approved a constitutional amendment in 1986 authorizing the state to operate a lottery for the purpose of generating significant additional moneys for education. Today Floridians continue to show their support by purchasing nearly $4 billion in Lottery products per year resulting in contributions of more than $21 billion to the EETF since 1988. For more information regarding the Florida Lottery its games and its contributions to education visit www.flalottery.com.