{"id":177799,"date":"2026-03-04T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177799\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:56:07","slug":"florida-lottery-winners-from-fort-lauderdale-orlando-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177799\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Lottery winners from Fort Lauderdale, Orlando area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Tuesday\u2019s big money Florida Lottery draw games \u2014 Fantasy 5, Jackpot Triple Play, Mega Millions \u2014 there were happy winners in South Florida, Central Florida and North Florida.<\/p>\n<p>And the South Florida winner bought the ticket at a location that had a jackpot hit six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>None of those winners nailed the Mega Millions jackpot, which will be at $496 million on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s Jackpot Triple Play numbers were 2, 8, 26, 33, 40 and 41, the same numbers on a free Quick Pick ticket spit out by the machine at Madison\u2019s Cherry Lake Food Mart, 8113 N. State Rd. 53. That stroke of luck about 15 miles from the Florida-Georgia border was worth $625,000.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the 1, 5, 7, 16 and 23 balls popped for the Fantasy 5 midday draw. Those were the choices of players at a Circle K, 320 W. State Rd. 434, in the Orlando suburb of Winter Springs and Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Ideal Food Basket, 2750 Davie Blvd. Each ticket won $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth consecutive day with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/lottery\/article314904509.html\">a Broward Fantasy 5 winner<\/a> also was the second hit at Ideal Food Basket. Six months and a day earlier, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/lottery\/article311953315.html\">winner of a $525,000 Jackpot Triple Play<\/a> bought the ticket at the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                              <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\"  alt=\"Ideal Food Basket, 2750 Davie Blvd., Fort Lauderdale\" title=\"ideal food basket davie blvd fort lauderdale.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/>                                                                                                                Ideal Food Basket, 2750 Davie Blvd., Fort Lauderdale                                                                                                                                                                        Broward County Property Appraiser                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>These tickets must be cashed at the Florida Lottery main office in Tallahassee or one of the district offices. The closest office to Ideal is the office in Miami Lakes, 14621 Oak Ln., which is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments can be made, but aren\u2019t required, by calling 305-364-3080 or emailing MIARC@flalottery.com.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772632567_826_695 Miami Herald sig 072115 Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David J. Neal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David J. Neal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Tuesday\u2019s big money Florida Lottery draw games \u2014 Fantasy 5, Jackpot Triple Play, Mega Millions \u2014 there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[759,249,251,250,9415,9416],"class_list":["post-177799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-florida-lottery","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-jackpot","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}