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The Florida Lottery announced on Monday that Casey Clifford claimed a $5 million prize from 200X The Cash Scratch-Off game using a secured drop box located at the Tampa District Office.
THE FLORIDA LOTTERY The Florida Lottery is a government-run organization in the state of Florida, United States. With numerous on-line and scratch-off games available, players have a wide variety of prize levels to choose from. Since it began, the Florida Lottery has continued to add variety to its portfolio of games.

Florida Lottery COVID-19 Update. Scammers are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing their activities in Florida. Be aware, stay alert, and never send money to receive a lottery prize. FLORIDA LOTTO live drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday night at around 11:00 p.m. Telemundo WRMD TAMPA TV Channel shows FLORIDA LOTTERY live drawing broadcast at approximately 11:15 p.m. ET on Wednesdays and Saturdays while local WKMG TV Channel shows taped-delayed drawing broadcast between 11:16 p.m. ET on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Florida Lottery scratch off tickets vary from one game to the next. Not just the catchy names or ticket price either. Each game has its own odds of winning. Those odds vary from game to game and even between similar prizes. No two instant games are the same. Knowing these odds can give you an advantage!

Welcome back to Florida Wonders, a series where Tampa Bay Times journalists answer your questions.

We’ve been inviting readers to submit questions they want our reporters to research, using Hearken’s community engagement tool. Readers then voted on the question they wanted us to write about.

The winner was a question submitted by Dale Banks: What is the breakdown on where the money is being spent by the Florida Lottery?

A lottery was approved by Florida voters in 1986 through a constitutional amendment that would set aside a portion of proceeds for public education. More than $37 billion has been generated for education in Florida since the first ticket was sold in 1988, wrote Lottery spokesperson Lizeth George in an email.

When the Florida Lottery first started, funds were broken down as follows: 50 percent prizes, 35 percent public schools, 5 percent retailer’s commission and 10 percent operating costs.

Currently, 65 percent of proceeds go to prizes. Then 26.9 percent are added to the state’s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (taxes from slot machine revenue also are added to this fund). That leaves 5.6 percent for retailer commissions, 1.1 percent for administrative costs and 1.4 percent for ticket vendor fees.

How is the education fund used?

K-12 schools, state colleges and universities, and scholarship recipients all benefit from the Lottery money. The Florida Lottery transferred $1.86 billion to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund in 2019, George said. In the first six months of 2020, the Florida Lottery transferred $1.08 billion.

Where does that money actually go?

Florida Bright Futures Scholarships, created by lawmakers in 1997, are completely funded by the Lottery. In the 2019-2020 school year, 28.5 percent of the money in the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, or $595,143,167, went toward Bright Futures.

School districts receive about 43 percent of the fund. Money is parceled out for things like class size reduction and workforce education.

Pinellas County Schools, for example, received about $4.4 million from Lottery funds for the 2019-2020 school year, said spokesperson Isabel Mascareñas. About $4.3 million of that is marked for the School Recognition Funds, which can only be used for nonrecurring expenses like educational equipment, nonrecurring faculty and staff bonuses, and “temporary personnel to assist in maintaining or improving student performance.”

If there are funds remaining after school districts get School Recognition Funds, the leftovers are distributed to school districts as discretionary Lottery funds. Pinellas got $100,000 this school year to use at the discretion of the school advisory council.

The rest of the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund goes to state universities (18.4 percent) and other student financial need (3.1 percent).

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Most Common Numbers

This page shows a breakdown of the 18 most common Florida Lotto Main numbers drawn, as well as the most common numbers in Florida Lotto. Results are ordered by frequency with the most common at the top.

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Florida Lotto Number Draw Frequency for Main Numbers:

First Draw
Last Draw
23 October 1999
Total Draws

47
Last Drawn:
23/10/1999
40
Last Drawn:
19/06/1999
48
Last Drawn:
25/09/1999
42
Last Drawn:
11/09/1999
9
Last Drawn:
16/10/1999
29
Last Drawn:
14/08/1999
8
Last Drawn:
04/09/1999
34
Last Drawn:
17/04/1999
28
Last Drawn:
02/10/1999
19
Last Drawn:
24/04/1999
20
Last Drawn:
23/10/1999
21
Last Drawn:
14/08/1999
27
Last Drawn:
31/07/1999
41
Last Drawn:
24/07/1999
45
Last Drawn:
19/06/1999
12
Last Drawn:
28/08/1999
14
Last Drawn:
27/03/1999
15
Last Drawn:
04/09/1999

First Draw
Last Draw
06 February 2021
Total Draws

4
Last Drawn:
3 days ago
(06/02/2021)
28
Last Drawn:
17 days ago
(23/01/2021)
52
Last Drawn:
20 days ago
(20/01/2021)
38
Last Drawn:
20 days ago
(20/01/2021)
44
Last Drawn:
3 days ago
(06/02/2021)
15
Last Drawn:
10 days ago
(30/01/2021)
48
Last Drawn:
76 days ago
(25/11/2020)
1
Last Drawn:
10 days ago
(30/01/2021)
5
Last Drawn:
31 days ago
(09/01/2021)
6
Last Drawn:
3 days ago
(06/02/2021)
12
Last Drawn:
13 days ago
(27/01/2021)
51
Last Drawn:
20 days ago
(20/01/2021)
45
Last Drawn:
13 days ago
(27/01/2021)
36
Last Drawn:
31 days ago
(09/01/2021)
43
Last Drawn:
34 days ago
(06/01/2021)
27
Last Drawn:
10 days ago
(30/01/2021)
20
Last Drawn:
27 days ago
(13/01/2021)
22
Last Drawn:
13 days ago
(27/01/2021)

The Main pool changed from 49 to 53 starting with the draw on 27 October 1999.

First Draw
Last Draw
06 February 2021
Total Draws

48
Last Drawn:
76 days ago
(25/11/2020)
28
Last Drawn:
17 days ago
(23/01/2021)
47
Last Drawn:
6 days ago
(03/02/2021)
15
Last Drawn:
10 days ago
(30/01/2021)
44
Last Drawn:
3 days ago
(06/02/2021)
38
Last Drawn:
20 days ago
(20/01/2021)
12
Last Drawn:
13 days ago
(27/01/2021)
40
Last Drawn:
17 days ago
(23/01/2021)
4
Last Drawn:
3 days ago
(06/02/2021)
45
Last Drawn:
13 days ago
(27/01/2021)
6
Last Drawn:
3 days ago
(06/02/2021)
27
Last Drawn:
10 days ago
(30/01/2021)
29
Last Drawn:
6 days ago
(03/02/2021)
20
Last Drawn:
27 days ago
(13/01/2021)
42
Last Drawn:
76 days ago
(25/11/2020)
43
Last Drawn:
34 days ago
(06/01/2021)
8
Last Drawn:
34 days ago
(06/01/2021)
41
Last Drawn:
34 days ago
(06/01/2021)

The Main pool changed from 49 to 53 starting with the draw on 27 October 1999.

Florida Lotto Number Draw Frequency for Lotto Xtra Numbers:

The Florida Lottery Winning Numbers

5
Last Drawn:
129 days ago
(03/10/2020)
3
Last Drawn:
125 days ago
(07/10/2020)
4
Last Drawn:
157 days ago
(05/09/2020)
2
Last Drawn:
136 days ago
(26/09/2020)

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