{"id":458977,"date":"2026-09-10T04:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458977\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:20:20","slug":"gulfport-man-wins-1-million-on-mississippi-lottery-scratch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458977\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulfport man wins $1 million on Mississippi Lottery scratch-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 A Gulfport man won $1 million on the Mississippi Lottery\u2019s $30 Millionaire Maker scratch-off game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ticket was purchased at a Shell station in Long Beach on Monday, September 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He had already experienced smaller wins on Millionaire Maker, which kept him coming back to the game. The winner said he rotates the stores where he purchases his lottery tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With his $1 million prize, he has a plan for what comes next: a new vehicle and a lot of saving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For a game that has been on the market for less than a year, Millionaire Maker has already created three millionaires. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Gulfport winner is the third player to claim a $1 million top prize since the game debuted in January 2026. Seven $1 million top prizes remain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 A Gulfport man won $1 million on the Mississippi Lottery\u2019s $30 Millionaire Maker scratch-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[181035,181038,181032,228,131,133,132,181033,181036,181037,181034,181031],"class_list":["post-458977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-1-million-dollar-winner","tag-30-scratch-off","tag-gulfport-man","tag-jackpot","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-shell-station","tag-lottery-winner","tag-millionaire-maker","tag-millionaire-maker-scratch-off-game","tag-mississippi-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}