Florida Lottery Betting Guide 2024
December 23, 2011 was a very important day for people who play the Florida Lottery, but hate having to constantly travel to their local brick-and-mortar lottery retailer before every drawing. That was the day that the United States Department of Justice issued a surprise Memorandum Opinion, deciding to allow online lottery ticket purchasing, with the important stipulation that you could purchase lottery tickets across state lines.
So instead of just participating in the Florida Lotto, Powerball or Mega Millions drawings, you can also virtually travel overseas with a couple of clicks of your mouse to buy lottery tickets online. That ruling gives you a chance at the Italian SuperEnalotto, Spain's popular La Primitiva lottery, or the newer Euro Millions game played in Europe.
This allows Florida residents and other US residents to enjoy playing the Florida Lottery in its many forms, while also giving you literally global access to the biggest and most potentially life-changing lotteries on the planet. There are no federal or Florida betting laws which prohibit lottery players from purchasing their tickets online.
Which Lottery Games Can Be Played in Florida?
The Florida State lottery system is composed of the bigger games like Mega Millions and Powerball, which pool Florida Lottery ticket purchases with 44 other states and municipalities. This provides a massive potential jackpot, and there is also the Fantasy 5 Lotto, Play 4 Lotto and Cash 3 Lotto, as well as the main big Florida Lotto, which frequently provides a shot at a multimillion dollar payday. And what is really convenient about the early Christmas present the DOJ gave lottery players way back in 2011 is how certain savvy Internet businesses combined physical messenger services with this new legislation to allow you to purchase Fl Lotto tickets any time night or day, from the privacy and convenience of your desktop PC, laptop, tablet or mobile FL betting apps. And as mentioned above, you can also play international lotteries, some of which deliver the best possible odds of all worldwide lotteries of becoming an overnight millionaire. Florida online betting just got a lot more interesting.
For example, the popular Florida Lotto, where you must choose 6 numbers from 1 to 53 (known as a 6/53 game) delivers a 1 in 22,957,480 chance at winning the grand prize and becoming an instant millionaire. But the Irish Lotto is a 6/45 game, and the odds of becoming the grand prize winner are just 1 in 8,145,060, nearly 3 times as attractive as those offered in the Florida Lotto. The Irish Lotto starts off at $4.3 million, and the Florida Lotto guarantees at least $2 million to a jackpot winner. So players that enjoy the FL Lottery can now improve their odds of winning millions of dollars simply by playing the Irish Lotto. And in case you are wondering how this legal option to Florida, US and international lottery players works, let us give you a quick break down.
How Do Florida Online Lottery Ticket Purchases Work?
You buy lottery tickets online at one of the select Internet lottery ticket retailers, just as you would at your usual brick-and-mortar retail outlet. Let's say you wanted to purchase tickets in this week's Powerball drawing in the Florida Lottery. You open and fund an account with one of the legally licensed Internet lottery ticket sales outlets (we have provided a list here on our website for easy and convenient click-through access), select Powerball from the lottery options, and purchase your tickets. You do this all from the comfort and convenience of your favorite PC or smartphone, and then that Internet lottery retailer has physical messenger service employees located in Florida travel to the nearest lottery ticket outlet and purchase your tickets on your behalf. Your tickets are then scanned, with the images e-mailed to you. This way you can buy tickets with a few clicks of your mouse button, and you never have to leave your home.
To make Internet lottery ticket purchasing even more attractive, many of these companies will offer "buy one get one" specials on lottery tickets, they offer subscription and multidraw services, and even access to the odds-improving lottery syndicate option. And in the above example, if you were lucky enough to win some money in the Florida Lottery Powerball drawing, these online companies even help you collect your winnings, without charging a fee. There is a small service charge to pay for the messenger service, but this unique way to play the Florida Lotto as well as other state and international lotteries is very attractive to those lottery players which have busy and hectic lifestyles. Any time night or day you simply power up your PC or turn on your smartphone, and you can purchase Florida Lottery tickets or tickets in any other major lottery in the world, giving you multiple chances at becoming the next Internet lottery millionaire.
Florida Online Lottery Agents
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Florida Land Lottery Offices
For winning numbers and results, visit the official Florida Lottery Website.
If you want to learn about additional options for FL betting, check out our pages on Florida casinos, FL sports betting, and FL horse betting.