Florida Lottery Continues Hot Streak

Submitted by Anonymous on March 11, 2013 - 4:08pm

The Florida lottery is having a streak of its own good luck. For the fifth straight week, it has exceeded sales records for its scratch-off tickets.

Scratch-off games topped $74 million last week, besting the previous weeks record by $5.7 million. Florida is one of the few states to have exceeded $70 million in scratch-off sales, behind New York and Massachusetts.

Among its newly-launched games is the $3 million-jackpot Flamingo Fortune, which began selling for $20 per ticket on March 5, and led last weeks sales.

Breaking this weekly scratch-off sales record shows our players are responding to our excellent product mix, especially considering that 22 different games had sales of more than $1 million last week, said Florida lottery Secretary Cynthia OConnell.

Scratch-off games account for roughly 58 percent of ticket sales and generated more than $495 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) last year.

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