The Florida Lottery Makes Teen Rich with $1 Million Prize

It must be nice right? Hyury Oliveira, a 19-year-old from Pompano Beach, just hit the jackpot on the $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE SPECTACULAR scratch-off game from the Florida Lottery. This ain't your average teenager drama, it's the kind that turns you from a regular Joe into a millionaire overnight. According to WFLA, on a Tuesday, the Florida Lottery made it official, and Oliveira’s life changed forever.

Hyury got his golden ticket from a place called A & J Seabra Supermarket in Deerfield Beach. Shoutout to the folks at A & J – they’re getting a cool $2,000 just for selling the winning ticket. Who knew that making a trip to get some groceries could be so profitable?

Now, let’s talk the cash this kid is getting. Instead of getting a yearly check, Hyury decided to go for the lump-sum payment. Smart move or not, he’s walking away with $640,000 after Uncle Sam takes his cut. That’s a lot of dough for a 19-year-old. Imagine all the things you’d do at that age with that kind of cash. New car? World trip? Fancy gadgets? The sky’s the limit!

For those wondering, this isn’t just any scratch-off game. The $50 scratch-off has got some serious prizes. There are two top prizes of $1 million a year for life. Plus, 234 lucky winners can snag a million bucks.! Altogether, this game is dishing out over $1.6 billion in cash prizes. It’s like the lottery decided is just asking me to run out and buy some tickets.

Who knows, next time I'm at the supermarket, I might be the one walking out with a ticket to Easy Street. 

For those of you who follow my posts (thanks Mom!) you're probably aware that I love Florida Lottery Scratch Offs. I also love it when I hear that someone has gone down to the Fort Myers Florida Lottery office to cash in a big ticket. Just yesterday we learned of Barbara Arnesen of Lake Placid, who cashed in her one million dollar winning ticket. She was playing the One Million A Year For Life ticket when she hit it big. So, how do you know which ticket to get?

Well, one thing you could do is play a ticket that is brand new. It seems like someone hits a fairly decent prize right out of the gate. Take for instance the Florida Lottery scratch offs that just came out this week.

As of today, the 500x card has already had 6 people cash in $20,000 winners. The 100X has had 6 people redeem $10,000 prizes. Even the $5 - 50X ticket has had 3 people cash in $10,000 winners. That's 3 days after they first hit stores, and, more importantly, those are the tickets that have been redeemed. How many winning tickets are at home in a safe because they can't make it to the lottery office until next week? That's a lot of money in just a few short days, but - none of the "X The Cash" tickets have had any jackpots cashed in yet. Yet. My money is on that happening soon. But what happens if you get to the gas station and they don't have these tickets? Do you look at the ones they do have and just guess? You don't need to.

One of the big reasons new tickets are so popular is because people know that all of the jackpot winning tickets are still available. But again, what about the others? Some of the tickets have no grand prize winners left. It's not as much fun scratching a ticket if you can't win the big prize. But how do you know? The Florida Lottery lists all the data on their website. And I'm going to break it down for you. These are the Florida Lottery tickets where all of the grand prizes have already been claimed. This data is current as of 1/18/2024.

If this game looks familiar, it's because it came out back in September of 2022. All of the $500,000 grand prizes have been claimed. And there's only 2 of the $10,000 prizes left.

8 people have claimed the $2 million dollar prize on this one. And that's all there is. Of the 204 $10,000 prizes, there's only 8 of those remaining.

The 2 dollar ticket of the same game. Same thing, too. All of the $100,000 grand prize tickets are gone. It is interesting to see that 15 of the $2,500 winners are still out there.

I think people buy the crossword tickets because they take longer. With this one, however, all of the 2 million dollar grand prizes are gone. There's still 2 of the 20 $100,000 winning tickets remaining.

This ticket has quite the draw. For just $2 it's a chance to win $1,000 a week for life. Unfortunately, they've all been claimed. And all 8 of the winners took the cash option of $930,000. Nobody has patience. Ha.

This has been a popular game. So popular that most of the big prizes have been claimed. There are no 5 million dollar tickets left and only one 1 million dollar ticket remaining. All of the $100,000 winners are gone, too. It's a $20 ticket that takes a long time to find out if you won something. Maybe pass on this one.

Lol. All of the rest have been winners remaining. If I didn't mention your favorite scratch off - you have a chance.

I'm liking the new ones. The $50 500x The Cash ticket has 2 $25 million and 160 $1 million dollar winning tickets. The $10 100x The Cash has 10 $2 million dollar winning tickets.

Good luck everyone! And Play Responsibly.