Villager Tommye Bucklin has claimed a $500,000 prize in the Gold Rush Tripler Scratch-Off game.
She claimed the prize at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
Bucklin, who won a $1 million Scratch-Off prize in 2012, purchased her latest winning ticket at Winn-Dixie in The Villages. The $20 Scratch-Off game, Gold Rush Tripler, is the latest installment of the player favorite, GOLD RUSH Scratch-Off games.
According to the Florida State Lottery, Gold Rush Tripler offers better odds of winning $30 to $500, compared to previous Gold Rush games, and the best odds ever to win $500,000. There are three top prizes of $3 million and nine prizes of $500,000 remaining. The overall odds of winning are 1 in 2.95,a according to the winner.
Shortly after Bucklin claimed her prize on Friday, Renee Thompson Patton, 34, of Tampa, claimed a $500,000 top prize in the new 20X The Cash Scratch-Off game.
Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Florida Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 60 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $575 million for education in fiscal year 2012-13.