Second win from the same game after player tells Lottery she'll "be back"
By Kate Northrop
CLEMONT, Fla. — A Florida woman won a second-tier prize of $1 million from the same scratch-off game after promising the Florida Lottery that they'll see her again one day.
It's not unheard of for lottery winners to become repeat winners, sometimes winning two or three prizes of varying amounts in different games. Altovise Morris, 41, of Orlando, on the other hand, won two identical prizes of $1 million in the same scratch-off game less than a year apart.
In November 2022, Morris visited Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee to claim a $1 million second-tier prize she won from a ticket in the $50 "500X The Cash" instant game, which she purchased at 7-Eleven on West Colonial Drive in Winter Garden.
"I'll be back!" she told Lottery officials at the time.
Sure enough, Morris returned in January 2023 to claim yet another $1 million prize she won from the same scratch-off game, made more serendipitous by the fact that she had just bought her dream home.
"After closing on my house, I stopped at a Sunoco Foodmart in Clemont, and it happened again," Morris recalled. "I still can't believe this is happening!"
The 7-Eleven in Winter Garden and the Sunoco Foodmart on South U.S. Highway 27 in Clemont each received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling a winning ticket.
For both of her wins, Morris chose to receive each prize as a $820,000 lump sum payment.
The $50 "500X The Cash" game currently offers a top prize of $25 million, the largest prize ever offered in a Florida Lottery scratch-off game and the best odds to become a millionaire, according to the Lottery.
One of the two available $25 million top prizes have been claimed so far. Following Morris' two wins, there are currently 14 out of 160 second-tier prizes of $1 million and 29 out of 300 third-tier prizes of $50,000 remaining in the game, which launched in February 2022.
50.00 scratch tickets are the big leagues. Interested in her daily or weekly tab for playing this game. Not that it hasn't worked out but still.
I could not imagine spending $50.00 dollars on a scratch off. But I spend more then that trying to win the lottery.=0p
congrats to her...I bet they see her again.
And Wow! Am I ever in the wrong state for lump sum payouts. It looks like every state and their uncle pay out more on lump sums than Michigan does...Wow!
JUNE 7 florida lotto 43 million is up high ... mode basic list 30/31 10/11/42 2/33/3 4/35 37/7 44 16+ 18+ 20/21
24/25 27/28 digits 1 3 4 2 7 0 8 3 6 my final list is 32 36/5 41 17 24/25 and some adjustment by 1 or 30 like 11 2 35 6 11 47 and from the basic list match 41 35 32 17 06 38
YES WE CAN ....PREDICATOR THE LOTTERY by SOLAR STAR ..... LUMP SUM OR NOT, 43 MILLION IS A HIGH DRAW REWARD for FLORIDA
People come to Florida to play our lottery and usually win too lol. Come for a visit, a lot of travelers leave millionaires.
You have too many draw games. Double plays, triple plays, Fireball plays and all those nationwide games. You have 5 cash pop games every day. One number. Why so much ballyhoo about that. I will look into it.
More information is needed to check the probability of this coincidence.
To compute the probability that at least one player wins two $1 million prizes in the same game, the following information is needed.
Hopefully (2) is good enough. Might need the full distribution of multiple plays of all players.
Congratulations, some guys have all the luck!
Congratulations 🎊🎉🍾🎈 I wonder what zodiac sign she is? It would be nice if there was a winner profile of big lottery winners like month and day of birth,zodiac sign and any strategies they use💕💕💕💕💕