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The Colorado Lottery was established on July 1, 1982, to fund the state's Conservation Trust Fund, state parks, outdoor recreation, and capital construction projects. The first Colorado scratch ticket went on sale in January 1983, and demand blew past expectations almost immediately — instead of the projected $60 million, the Lottery had already sold $137 million in tickets by that June.
Scratch games remain the backbone of the Colorado Lottery's business more than 40 years later. Scratch ticket sales hit a record $596.7 million in fiscal year 2023, up 22% from fiscal year 2020, and now account for roughly two-thirds of the Lottery's total annual revenue. The Lottery regularly retires and launches new scratch games to keep prizes available, with current top-tier tickets like "$3,000,000 Extreme Fortune" and "Set For Life" offering multimillion-dollar top prizes.
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The biggest confirmed Colorado scratch-off win on record belongs to Miguel N. of Berthoud, who claimed a $3,665,272 top prize on a $50 "Set for Life" instant ticket purchased at the G&R Food Mart in Longmont. The odds of hitting the Set for Life top prize were roughly 1 in 1.8 million, making this one of the rarest wins in Colorado Lottery history.
A Colorado resident claimed the largest online scratch ticket prize ever won in the United States: $3 million on a digital scratch ticket ordered through Lotto.com. The winner, who lives in a mountain town where winter weather can make trips to a retailer difficult, said she plays online regularly and was stunned when a Lotto.com representative called within minutes to confirm her top-prize win.
Rounding out the top three, a Colorado man named Brandon won $1 million on a $20 "$25 Million Cash Explosion" scratch ticket after playing the lottery on and off for 20 years. Brandon celebrated with his kids on a trip to Disneyland, and at the time of his win, one more $1 million top prize remained available on the same game.