The Florida Lottery today announced that LUCKY $200,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE Scratch-Off winner, Deborah Warren, 60, of Fort Myers, claimed the first $200,000 a year for life prize at Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.

Warren chose the one-time, lump-sum payment for her winnings in the amount of $2,775,480.04. She purchased her winning LUCKY $200,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE Scratch-Off ticket at Circle K, located at 4600 Bayline Drive in North Fort Myers.

The $20 LUCKY $200,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game recently launched on January 5 and features more than $450 million in total prizes. There are nine top prizes of $200,000 a year for life and nine top prizes of $50,000 a year for life remaining. The overall odds of winning a prize in the game are one in 2.94. Scratch-Off tickets may be purchased at any of the instant ticket vending machines (ITVMs) or at more than 13,000 Florida Lottery retail locations statewide.

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.