TALLAHASSEE,Fla. (WTXL) - The Florida Lottery announces that 41 year-old, Pamela Yeomans of Tallahassee, claimed a top prize in the $500,000 Holiday Cash Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
Yeomans purchased her ticket from Maxwell's Grocery, located at 9002 Mahan Drive in Tallahassee.
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.