St. Augustine man wins $1 million on $5,000,000 FLAMINGO MULTIPLIER Scratch-Off game

The Florida Lottery announces that Joseph Lemmon, 47, of St. Augustine, claimed a $1 million prize in the $5,000,000 FLAMINGO MULTIPLIER Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
Lemmon chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $728,894.00. He purchased his winning ticket from FCE, located at 195 Corridor Road in Ponte Vedra Beach.
The $20 game, $5,000,000 FLAMINGO MULTIPLER, launched in September 2015 and features more than 7.6 million winning tickets and more than $346 million in total cash prizes! The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-2.97.
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.