Seventeen days of ticket sales allowed for the Lottery Commission to repay with interest the initial $15.5 million bond from Florida's General Revenue Fund that got it going. Total sales in the first 12 days totaled $95 million. The first game offered by Florida Lottery was Millionaire, a $1 scratch-off game with a $1 million annuity prize.
The minimum age to purchase a Florida Lottery ticket, regardless of game, is 18. The Bright Futures scholarship program is funded by the Florida Lottery. The point of the Lottery is to give extra funding to Florida education, and it was mandated that a significant proportion of all revenue generated by ticket sales go to the Education Enhancement Trust Fund. The Florida Lottery began operation on January 12, 1988, by order of a constitutional amendment approved by Florida voters by a 2-to-1 margin in the general election of November 4, 1986.
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