{"id":255441,"date":"2026-05-02T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255441\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:19:06","slug":"a-1-3-million-florida-lottery-ticket-was-sold-in-tampa-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255441\/","title":{"rendered":"A $1.3 million Florida Lottery ticket was sold in Tampa area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida Lottery draw game player became a millionaire Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t come from the Mega Millions game, which will have a $195 million jackpot for Tuesday\u2019s drawing. Both the Fantasy 5 jackpots, the midday and the evening drawings, rolled over to Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But a Jackpot Triple Play participant at a New Port Richey 7-Eleven, 4540 Rowan Rd., chose the Quick Pick option, and the machine chose the lucky sextet of 3, 8, 17, 21, 31 and 38. That\u2019s a $1.3 million winning ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Lottery says a winning ticket of over $1 million must be cashed at the main Florida Lottery office in Tallahassee, 250 Marriott Dr., but have also told of such tickets being <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/floridalottery.com\/about\/lottery-offices\">cashed at one of the nine district offices<\/a>. The closest office in this case would be just about 43 miles away in Tampa, Centerpoint Business Park, 1911 U.S. 301 N, and can be reached at 813-744-6134 or TAMRC@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\/05\/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":"A Florida Lottery draw game player became a millionaire Friday night. That didn\u2019t come from the Mega Millions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-255441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255441","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=255441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}