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The Florida Lottery officially updated an eye-watering prize offering from “2 of 2” available to “1 of 2” claimed. On April 18, the state announced that a gas station customer took home a whole lot more than a tank of fuel. He won the state lottery’s largest scratch-off cash prize, ever.

Venice, Florida, gas station sells winning lottery ticket worth $25,000,000

The Circle K gas station on 101 U.S. Highway 41 Bypass S sold Kyle Lindquist, a 45-year-old Venice resident, the lucky ticket.

Lindquist chose to collect a lump sum. Doing so landed him a cool $16,000,000. The gas station earned a $50,000 commission.

I can’t even begin to fathom what seeing that number – or anything near it – in my account would do to my brain. Cue the White Lotus Season 3 scene where Belinda logs into her bank and registers that she has $5 million that wasn’t there the night before. Bye, y’all.

The Florida Lottery says that folks who buy the scratch-off game sold at the gas station actually have a pretty decent shot at making a profit. In fact, state lottery scratch-off games have created 2,283 millionaires since Florida introduced them. The “500X The Cash” game odds are, at best, 1-in-5 to win $100. This scratch-off alone has shelled out some 4.3 million individual cash prizes. The pot has $1.66 billion in it. Tickets cost $50.

In any case, another $25 million scratch-off prize is still floating around Florida somewhere, maybe at a gas station.

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