Orlando man turns $5 into $500,000 playing MONOPOLY FLORIDA EDITION Scratch-Off game

The Florida Lottery announces that Ernst Laborde, 28, of Orlando, claimed a top prize in the $500,000 MONOPOLY^™ FLORIDA EDITION Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. He purchased his winning ticket from Racetrac, located at 3508 South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando.
The $5 Scratch-Off game, $500,000 MONOPOLY FLORIDA EDITION, launched in July 2016, and features more than $84 million in prizes, including 12 top prizes of $500,000! The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-3.98.
Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 65 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $734 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2015-16.