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INGLIS MAN STRIKES GOLD WITH $500,000! TALLAHASSEE-- The Florida Lottery today announced that GOLD RUSH Scratch-Off top prize winner, Rajanikant Patel, 53, of Inglis, claimed his $500,000 top prize at the Florida Lottery headquarters. Patel purchased his winning ticket at Inglis Citgo, located at 7 N. U.S. Highway 19 in Inglis. The $20 GOLD RUSH Scratch-Off offers players the chance to win top prizes of $500,000, and more than 5.5 million prizes of up to $10,000. Seven top prizes of $500,000 remain in the game. GOLD RUSH tickets may be purchased at more than 13,000 Florida Lottery retail locations. The overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.95. For more information on the GOLD RUSH Scratch-Off game, please visit the Florida Lottery Web site at flalottery.com. Florida Lottery games are designed to be a fun form of entertainment, with the added benefit of supporting education in our state. Since 1988, the Florida Lottery has contributed more than $20 billion to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, benefiting our students and schools, as well as funding more than one million Bright Futures scholarships. By a two-to-one margin, Florida voters in 1986 approved a constitutional amendment authorizing the state to operate a lottery for the purpose of generating significant additional moneys for education. # # # |
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