{"id":241878,"date":"2026-04-22T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241878\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:32:38","slug":"25m-scratch-off-prize-claimed-by-fl-man-lottery-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241878\/","title":{"rendered":"$25M Scratch-Off Prize Claimed By FL Man: Lottery Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, FL \u2014 A 68-year-old Miami man claimed a $25 million top prize from the \u201c$25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER\u201d scratch-off game on Jan. 12, Florida Lottery officials said in an April 14 news release. <\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Diaz chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $15.96 million at the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridalottery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Lottery<\/a> headquarters in Tallahassee. <\/p>\n<p>Diaz bought his winning ticket at the Walmart store at 14720 S.W. 36th Street in Miami. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201c$25,000,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER,\u201d which costs $50 per ticket, features two top prizes of $25 million and 60 prizes of $1 million. <\/p>\n<p>The game offers more than $1.2 billion in total cash prizes and has overall odds of winning of 1-in-4.09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, FL \u2014 A 68-year-old Miami man claimed a $25 million top prize from the \u201c$25,000,000 GOLD RUSH&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-241878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241878","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=241878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}