A 57-year-old Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al has won US$5 mil­lion (TT$34,046,885) in a Flori­da lot­tery.

The man is a res­i­dent of St Joseph, Trinidad, and al­though his name has been an­nounced, we've opt­ed not to dis­close it.

Flori­da Lot­tery of­fi­cials said the man claimed a US$5 mil­lion top prize from the $20 Gold Rush Lim­it­ed Scratch-Off game at the Lot­tery’s Mi­a­mi Dis­trict Of­fice.

He chose to re­ceive his win­nings as a one-time, lump-sum pay­ment of US$3,960,000 (TT$26,965,133).

The Tri­ni man pur­chased his win­ning tick­et from In­fo­place USA, lo­cat­ed at 11401 North­west 12th Street in Mi­a­mi.

The re­tail­er will re­ceive a $10,000 bonus com­mis­sion for sell­ing the win­ning Scratch-Off tick­et.

The Lot­tery’s $20 Scratch-Off game fea­tures 32 top prizes of US$5 mil­lion and 100 prizes of US$1 mil­lion.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, lot­tery of­fi­cials said, this tick­et is filled with over 33,000 prizes of $1,000 to US$100,000.

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