ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida Lottery officials announced Friday that a woman in St. Lucie County hit a big jackpot earlier this year, turning $20 into $5 million.<\/p>\n
In a statement, officials said that Maria Duran, 57, claimed a $5 million top prize from the $5,000,000 CROSSWORD CASH scratch-off game on April 6. <\/p>\n
Duran chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $3,262,138. <\/p>\n
Officials said Duran purchased her winning ticket from PK 2 Quick Mart, located at 4101 Okeechobee Road in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n
The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.90. However, the chance of winning $5 million playing this game is 1-in-4,018,135<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida Lottery officials announced Friday that a woman in St. Lucie County hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,759,2159,171,173,172,7060],"class_list":["post-343710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-florida-lottery","tag-money","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-winning-lottery-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343710","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=343710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}