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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2022

POLK COUNTY MAN GRABS A
FAST $1 MILLION AT THE LOCAL GRAB-N-GO
~ Player Wins Playing THE FASTEST ROAD TO $1,000,000 Scratch-Off Game! ~

TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announces that Tommy Wilkinson, 48, of Winter Haven, claimed a $1 million top prize from THE FASTEST ROAD TO $1,000,000 Scratch-Off game at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $790,000.00..

After winning big on THE FASTEST ROAD TO $1,000,000 Scratch-Off game, Wilkinson hit the road again, this time to head to Tallahassee to claim his prize. "The first person I called was my wife," Wilkinson told the Lottery. "As soon as she picked up I told her she was finally going to get her dream house."

Wilkinson purchased his winning ticket from Grab-N-Go, located at 2477 Rifle Range Road in Winter Haven. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.

The $30 game, THE FASTEST ROAD TO $1,000,000, launched in February 2020 and features 155 top prizes of $1,000,000 and over $948 million in cash prizes! The game's overall odds of winning are one-in-2.79.

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 $41 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 $80.5 billion in prizes and made more than 3,500 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

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