JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man claimed a $1 million prize from a scratch-off game on Friday, Florida Lottery officials announced.
44-year-old Sidney Herbert purchased the winning ticket from a Speedway Food Store at the Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville. The shop will get a $2,000 commission for selling the $50 ‘500x the cash’ ticket.
The ‘500x the cash’ scratch-off game features a top prize of $25 million and the best odds to become an ‘instant millionaire’, according to the Florida Lottery website. They said scratch-off tickets comprising approximately 77% of sales, bringing in more than $1.8 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2021-22.
| Prize Amount | Odds of Winning | Total Prizes | Prizes Remaining | Prizes Paid |
| $25,000,000 | 1-in-21,419,145 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| $1,000,000 | 1-in-267,739 | 160 | 75 | 85 |
| $50,000 | 1-in-142,794 | 300 | 143 | 157 |
| $20,000 | 1-in-19,953 | 2,147 | 1,043 | 1,104 |
| $10,000 | 1-in-20,037 | 2,138 | 1,042 | 1,096 |
Herbert chose to take the lump sum payment for his prize, which is $820,000.
