Highlands County man wins top prize playing $5000 A WEEK FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game

The Florida Lottery announces that Morris Cash, Jr., of Lake Placid, claimed a top prize in the $5,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
Cash chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $4,124,060.20. He purchased his winning ticket from Raceway, located at 5100 US Highway 27 South in Sebring.
The $10 game, $5,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE, has more than seven million winning tickets. The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-3.34.
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.