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Plantation man claims $1 million prize in $10,000,000 FORTUNE Scratch-Off game

Posted on June 5, 2017

Frank Gouge poses with his oversized check after claiming a
$1 million prize from the $10,000,000 FORTUNE Scratch-Off game.

The Florida Lottery announces that Frank Gouge, of Plantation, claimed a $1 million prize in the $10,000,000 FORTUNE Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $792,000.00.
Gouge purchased his winning ticket from Discount Food Stop, located at 41 East Acre Drive in Plantation. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.
The $25 Scratch-Off game, $10,000,000 FORTUNE, launched in February 2016, and features more than $623 million in total cash prizes, including 46 prizes of $1 million and four prizes of $10 million. The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-2.88.
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.

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