6 Winning Tickets Split $105-Million Florida Lotto Payoff
Owners of six winning tickets will split a record Florida Lotto jackpot of an estimated $105 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
Each of the tickets, bearing the numbers 5-6-21-34-35-45, is worth about $17.5 million, said lottery secretary Rebecca Paul.
The Saturday drawing ended a week of Lottomania in which more than 100 million $1 tickets were sold, sometimes at the rate of some 44,500 tickets a minute.
The drawing followed four weeks in which there had been no Lotto jackpot winner. Pennsylvania’s $115-million jackpot last year holds the record. In that drawing, 14 winning tickets were sold.
Winning ticket holders in Saturday’s drawing had to wait until lottery offices opened today to validate the tickets and begin the process of claiming their winnings.
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