{"id":420183,"date":"2026-10-06T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420183\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:50:59","slug":"tampa-woman-claims-5m-prize-with-scratch-off-lottery-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420183\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa woman claims $5M prize with scratch-off lottery ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tampa woman beat the odds and won the top $5,000,000 prize after purchasing a <a data-ylk=\"slk:lottery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/lottery\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">lottery<\/a> ticket at a gas station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Monday, the Florida Lottery announced that Mercedes Nunez, 34, claimed the prize on June 29 at the Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee, adding that Nunez bought her ticket at a Murphy USA, located at 1405 W. 15th Street in Panama City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Florida Lottery, Nunez received her prize as a one-time lump-sum payment of $2,779,400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nunez played a ticket of the 200X THE CASH, a $20 scratch-off game, which offers a top prize of $5 million, according to the Florida Lottery. The odds of this game are 1-in-2.96 and it features over 6.9 million winning tickets with $313 million in total cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Designed for players who love big multipliers and big excitement, this powerful $20 ticket delivers thrilling play and massive prize potential,&#8221; the Florida Lottery said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Lottery notes that 74% of ticket sales in fiscal year 2025-2026 came from scratch-off games. Also, $73.5 billion in prizes have been awarded, creating 2,544 millionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tampa woman beat the odds and won the top $5,000,000 prize after purchasing a lottery ticket at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-420183","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\/420183","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=420183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}