Two Florida Lottery Winners Score Big With Quick Pick
There are two new Florida winners that job got richer! The winning tickets for this pasts week’s Florida Lotto jackpot were sold out of Ocala and Plantation! These are the winning numbers from Thursday’s Leap Day Fantasy 5 night drawing: 1-6-23-25-26. One was actually a Quick Pick! The jackpot for these two tickets each win $29,698.00! Fantasy 5 is a daily draw game with a top prize of approximately $100,000 if won by a single winner with each ticket costing $1.
The winners bought their lottery tickets from:
- Quick King Food Mart, 10347 N US Highway 27, Ocala
- Publix, 550 N Pine Island Road, Plantation
Why buying a lottery ticket is fun:
Most scratch off tickets are usually impulse buys, depending how they look or where they’re placed but it’s smarter to make it a financial decision. The thrill of playing a scratch-off lottery ticket and uncovering a potential prize is what makes these tickets so exciting. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small or large life-changing jackpot, the suspense keeps players coming back. Also, most of the games are easy to figure out. By making the game simple, it keeps it accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. They offer various themes and designs for all the different scratch-off tickets, which can promote popular brands or even events. One of their favorite add-ons is the puzzles and bonus games on the ticket. It seems to add an extra layer of entertainment while scratching off the game.
Playing The Florida Lottery Scratch-Off:
We’ve always envisioned winning the lottery and dreamed about how we would spend the lump sum. We want to make sure you keep up with the largest Powerball jackpots so you know when to purchase the ticket! Did you know that the Florida Lottery keeps track all of the winners and tickets on their website? You might wonder why you haven’t been winning on your favorite tickets lately and it could be because some of them are harder to win than others. Playing can be super fun and exciting but you want to make you pick a ticket that has better odds to win.
7 Top Florida Lottery Winners That Were Murdered And Bankrupt
#7 Kathryn Faver: $1 Million - New Paid Off House Burned Down
Kathryn Faver won $1 million from a 500X THE CASH scratch-off ticket and took the lump sum of $820,000. She bought a new house cash and paid $400,000 in Destin, Florida. The same day she moved in, it burned down! She blamed it on the mover placing her moving boxes by the stove.
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#6 Malcolm Ramsey: $500 A Week For Life - Mental Health Issues
Malcolm Ramsey was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and lived at Loving Care in St. Petersburg, Florida when he bought a lottery ticket. He ended up winning the grand prize of $500 a week for life. He claimed his prize, received a cashier’s check for $302,446 and went to a local Amscot to cash his check. They charged him more than $14,000 in fees! Then he started spending his money on expensive TV’s and extra frivolous things. In only 4 weeks he blew through half of his winnings.
#5 Alex and Rhonda Toth: $13 Million - Bankrupt
The couple decided to take the winnings in annual payments at $666,666 each. But within 15 years the Pasco County, Florida couple gambled everything away. They also spent their earnings on expensive hotels, flying around the world paying to meet celebrities.
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#4 Gloria C. Mackenzie: $371 Million - Sued Son For Fraud
Gloria C. MacKenzie was the largest sole lottery winner in U.S. history at the time but was taken advantage of by her son. Her son and investment manager were stealing and living off her millions while losing money at the same time.
#3 Jeffrey Dampier Jr.: $20 Million - Murdered
Dampier moved to Tampa and wanted to open a gourmet popcorn store but was killed by his mistress, (who was also his sister-in-law) and her boyfriend. In 2005, Victoria Jackson and her boyfriend Nathan Jackson kidnapped Dampier and tied him up in a van. They beat him up, then Nathan handed Victoria a gun and said if you don’t shoot him I’m going to shoot you. That’s when she pulled the trigger and shot Dampier in the back of the head. They’re both serving life in prison.
#2 David Lee Edwards: $41.1 Million - Died In Debt
Edward’s was one of three winners of a $295 million Powerball jackpot in 2001 taking a lump sum of $41.1. They blew through their entire winnings by buying an expensive house, jet, racehorses and multiple business. They also used the money on drugs including crack cocaine. heroin and pills. By 2006, they were both living out of a storage unit surround by dirty clothes and had nothing left. His wife left him and eventually remarried something. Edwards died penniless in a Kentucky hospice care in 2013.
