The Florida Lottery announces that Jacqueline Griffin, 66, of Deerfield; and Tiffaney Steward-Hubbert, 36, of New Port Richey, each claimed a top prize in the $500,000 HOLIDAY CASH Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
Griffin purchased her winning ticket from Abco Supermarket, located at 56 Northwest 2nd Street in Deerfield Beach. Steward-Hubbert purchased her winning ticket from Sunshine Food Mart, located at 4512 Grand Boulevard in New Port Richey.
The new $5 Scratch-Off game, $500,000 HOLIDAY CASH, launched on October 23, and offers more than three million winning tickets, with 118 prizes from $10,000 to $500,000. Overall odds of winning are one-in-4.07.
Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 68 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $784 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2016-17.