{"id":289218,"date":"2026-05-29T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289218\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:58:10","slug":"florida-woman-snags-1m-prize-playing-lottery-scratch-off-game-at-publix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289218\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman snags $1M prize playing lottery scratch-off game at Publix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IXCHVTQ26ZHBRCXZHMG4KHLC5Q.jpg\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MARION COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Florida Lottery officials on Friday announced that a 44-year-old woman from Marion County cashed out big after playing a scratch-off game earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Angelique Hernandez, of Ocala, claimed a $1 million prize from the Gold Rush Legacy Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee on Feb. 5, according to the Florida Lottery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said Hernandez chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $640,000.00. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said Hernandez turned $20 into $1 million when she purchased her winning ticket from Publix, located at 10301 SE U.S. Highway 441., in Belleview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe $20 Scratch-Off game, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridalottery.com\/games\/scratch-offs\/view?id=1562\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/floridalottery.com\/games\/scratch-offs\/view?id=1562\">Gold Rush Legacy<\/a>, launched in April 2024 and features four top prizes of $10 million and 20 prizes of $1 million!\u201d the lottery said in a news release. \u201cThis game also features more than $894 million in total cash prizes. The game\u2019s overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.97.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MARION COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida Lottery officials on Friday announced that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-289218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289218","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=289218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}