{"id":217968,"date":"2026-04-03T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:37:09","slug":"winter-park-man-wins-1-million-on-florida-lottery-scratch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217968\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park man wins $1 million on Florida Lottery scratch-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Lottery announces that a Winter Park man has claimed a $1 million prize from a scratch-off game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jatin Kaushik, 26, claimed a $1 million prize from the $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER Scratch-Off game at the Lottery\u2019s Orlando District Office on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Lottery said Kaushik chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $638,100.00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kaushik purchased his winning ticket from Charge Up 69, located at 7235 University Boulevard in Winter Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The $50 Scratch-Off game, $25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER, offers two top prizes of $25 million and 60 prizes of $1 million. In total, the game features over $1.2 billion in cash prizes, with overall odds of winning at 1-in-4.09.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Lottery announces that a Winter Park man has claimed a $1 million prize from a scratch-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,759,29,99068,4567],"class_list":{"0":"post-217968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-lottery","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-orlando-district-office","13":"tag-winter-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217968","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=217968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}