Initially rolled out on an 18-week trial run, it was relaunched on a permanent basis on June 1, 1998. On February 25, 1998, Mega Money began, a four-plus-one numbers drawing game played every Tuesday and Friday with jackpots in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. On October 14, 1995, the Florida Lottery launched Flamingo Fortune, a game show where people who sent in losing Scratch-Off tickets were selected to play for prizes.

Called the Great LOTTOMOBILE Giveaway, 50 tickets each won their holders a 30th Anniversary 1995 Ford Mustang. On May 22, 1994, the first Florida Lotto mail-in promotion began where losing tickets could be mailed in for a prize. On January 24, 1994, Fantasy 5 expanded to Mondays through Fridays. Through variants, it is the longest-running Scratch-Off game by the Florida Lottery. On September 27, 1993, the first $2 Scratch-Off game, Bingo, was introduced. In 1991, a daily four-number on-line game, Play 4, was introduced on July 4, with a top prize of $5,000.ĭecember 1991 saw the advent of 'Florida Lotto Month', where minimum jackpots and rollovers were guaranteed at $10 million for the Christmas season. Seventeen days of ticket sales allowed for the Lottery Commission to repay with interest the initial $15.5 million bond from Florida's General Revenue Fund that got it going. Total sales in the first 12 days totaled $95 million. The first game offered by Florida Lottery was Millionaire, a $1 scratch-off game with a $1 million annuity prize. The minimum age to purchase a Florida Lottery ticket, regardless of game, is 18. The Bright Futures scholarship program is funded by the Florida Lottery. The point of the Lottery is to give extra funding to Florida education, and it was mandated that a significant proportion of all revenue generated by ticket sales go to the Education Enhancement Trust Fund.

The Florida Lottery began operation on January 12, 1988, by order of a constitutional amendment approved by Florida voters by a 2-to-1 margin in the general election of November 4, 1986. JSTOR ( June 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section.

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