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The Florida voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1998, January after which the Florida lottery game came into view. This lottery game ran by the state was chiefly established for generating funds in order to support the state education. It was announced that a major section of all funds that was raised by the Florida lottery was directly forwarded to the Education Enhancement Trust Fund. The Florida Lottery also finances Bright Futures, the scholarship program of Florida. The tickets of this lottery game were first sold on 29th April, 1988 and the first drawing was held on 7th May, Saturday 1998. During the first few years, the players had to choose six numbers between 1 and 49 at a total cost of $1 per play. Drawings were held on all Saturday nights. The players need to choose three correct numbers from a total of six in order to win prizes. The players need to choose six numbers appropriately in order to win the game.


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Florida Lotto Plays $17M This Wednesday

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

The Florida Lotto’s going to be having a pretty big prize up for grabs this Wednesday night. The popular floridian lottery’s jackpot rolled over on Saturday after nobody managed to snag all the right numbers. Those were 3, 12, 16, 30, 37 and 46, with the Xtra prize multiplier at x4. There were still lots of happy prize winners, a whopping 48 of which matched five numbers to take home about $5,000 each. An even luckier five players matched those five numbers on $2 Xtra tickets, bringing their prizes to almost $20,000 apiece!

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Florida Lotto Goes Up To $15M

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Powerball wasn’t the only one to see a rollover in Wednesday night’s draw. The Sunshine State’s lottery, The Florida Lotto, also went off without any jackpot winners, bringing the grand prize total up to $15 million for Saturday night’s. The winning numbers for this last drawing were 8, 16, 17, 26, 45 and 47, with a great big x5 as Xtra prize multiplier. This means that all lower-tier prize winners that played with Xtra tickets won prizes five times bigger! Of all the winners, 36 matched five numbers to take home about $5,000 each, and four super lucky players matched five on Xtra tickets, raking in about $26,000 each!

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Florida Lotto Plays $13M This Wednesday

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

The Florida Lotto’s jackpot is another one venturing up into little frequented territory. For this Wednesday night’s draw, the popular floridian lottery’s grand prize has crept up to a great big $13 million. The elusive winning numbers in last Saturday night’s rollover drawing were 1, 13, 18, 24, 40 and 53, with a x3 Xtra prize multiplier. There were, however loads of second-place prize winners that matched five numbers to take home about $5,500 each. One of those lucky players won with an Xtra ticket, bringing his prize up to an awesome $16,000! Let’s see how much bigger this jackpot gets.

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Florida Lotto’s Jackpot Passes de $10M Mark

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Looks like the Florida Lotto just got a lot more interesting! The popular Floridian lottery experienced another rollover in Wednesday night’s game, bringing the jackpot’s total up to an incredible $11 million for Saturday night’s game. The winning numbers, apparently too elusive, were 3, 11, 24, 29, 35 and 51. The Xtra prize multiplying factor was at a nice x4. Nobody managed to rake in the grand prize, but there were still plenty of lucky players that scored smaller prizes. Five of them matched five numbers to win the second place prize, a not-bad-at-all $20,000 each.

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