{"id":195578,"date":"2026-03-17T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:03:11","slug":"florida-man-wins-1m-in-lottery-scratch-off-sold-at-orlando-racetrac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195578\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man wins $1M in lottery scratch off sold at Orlando RaceTrac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man&#8217;s life changed when he won $1 million from a lottery scratch-off ticket. He bought the ticket for $20 at an Orlando gas station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The Osceola County man, Rafael Arciniegas Rosario, 59, purchased his winning ticket \u2013 a GOLD RUSH LEGACY Scratch-Off game \u2013 for $20 at a RaceTrac on Conway Road in Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The game&#8217;s top prizes include four $10 million prizes and 20 prizes of $1 million. The overall odds of winning are one in 2.97, the Florida Lottery said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8564e16f-9f47-4b0c-b5f9-11e76c977b48.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Rafael Arciniegas Rosario poses with an oversized check after claiming a $1 million prize from the GOLD RUSH LEGACY Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. (Source: The Florida Lottery) <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Rosario \u2013 from Kissimmee \u2013 traveled to Tallahassee, to the Florida Lottery Headquarters, on Dec. 10 to claim his prize. He posed with an oversized $1 million check.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Rosario decided to receive his prize in a one-time lump-sum \u2013 allowing him to take home $640,000.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e53ad15e-2ace-4c1f-9caa-f036f7acdbf3.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Arciniegas Rosario&#8217;s $1 million prize-winning Scratch-Off ticket. (Source: The Florida Lottery) <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid over 104.8 billion in prizes and created over 4,475 millionaires, Florida Lottery said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered from The Florida Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Lottery News: Powerball, Mega Millions, jackpots, winners<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man&#8217;s life changed when he won $1 million from a lottery scratch-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7059,115,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-195578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-lottery","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195578","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=195578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}