PACE WOMAN CLAIMS $1 MILLION
IN THE $600 MILLION HIGH ROLLER SCRATCHOFF GAME
TALLAHASSEE The Florida Lottery announced that $600 MILLION HIGH ROLLER ScratchOff game winner Cheri Coons 27 of Pace claimed her $1 million prize yesterday at the Florida Lottery Headquarters.
Coons chose the onetime lumpsum payment for her winnings in the amount of $698213.00. She purchased her winning $600 MILLION HIGH ROLLER ScratchOff ticket from Dodges Store located at 1 Eglin Parkway Southeast in Fort Walton Beach. The $600 MILLION HIGH ROLLER game is the first $30 ScratchOff game offered by the Florida Lottery. The game features more than $600 million in cash prizes including 20 $1 million top prizes and over 2000 prizes of $20000.The overall odds of winning are 1in2.43. Tickets can be purchased at any of the more than 13000 Florida Lottery retail locations.
Since 1988 the Florida Lottery has contributed more than $21 billion to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund benefiting our students and schools as well as funding more than one million Bright Futures scholarships.By a twotoone margin Florida voters in 1986 approved a constitutional amendment authorizing the state to operate a lottery for the purpose of generating significant additional moneys for education.