{"id":407187,"date":"2026-08-15T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407187\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:08:22","slug":"fort-worth-resident-claims-1-million-texas-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407187\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth resident claims $1 million Texas Lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Texas Lottery 3.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Texas Lottery logo\" alt=\"Texas Lottery logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Texas Lottery logo<\/p>\n<p>            Texas Lottery<\/p>\n<p>A lucky Fort Worth resident claimed a $1 million prize in scratch-ticket game <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texaslottery.com\/export\/sites\/lottery\/Games\/Scratch_Offs\/details.html_252699519.html\">Instant Millions<\/a>, according to the Texas Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The resident, who chose to remain anonymous, purchased the winning ticket at K U Food Mart at 2221 W. Seminary Drive in Fort Worth, lottery officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>K U Food Mart may be eligible for a $10,000 bonus under the Texas Lottery\u2019s Retailer Bonus Program for selling the prize-winning ticket, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>This was the third of four top prizes worth $1 million to be claimed in Instant Millions, lottery officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Instant Millions offers more than $91.3 million in total prizes. Overall odds of winning any prize in the game are one in 3.80, including break-even prizes, according to lottery officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published August 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786781302_324_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Lottery logo Texas Lottery A lucky Fort Worth resident claimed a $1 million prize in scratch-ticket game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-407187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}