{"id":443002,"date":"2025-12-12T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443002\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:13:40","slug":"jacksonville-man-wins-1-million-prize-from-scratch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443002\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man wins $1 million prize from scratch-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. <\/strong> \u2013 Jacksonville resident Billy Pitman, 61, recently claimed a $1 million prize from the Florida Lottery\u2019s $25,000,000 Gold Rush Multiplier Scratch-Off game. He collected his winnings at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Pitman opted for a one-time lump-sum payment of $638,100. He purchased the winning ticket at Winn-Dixie, located at 11380 Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Pittman&#8217;s winning scratch-off ticket (Florida Lottery)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The $50 Gold Rush Multiplier Scratch-Off offers two top prizes of $25 million and sixty prizes of $1 million. The game features more than $1.2 billion in total cash prizes, with overall odds of winning at about 1 in 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Scratch-Off games make up roughly 74% of Florida Lottery ticket sales for fiscal year 2024-25. Since their launch, these games have awarded over $66.9 billion in prizes, created 2,350 millionaires, and contributed more than $20 billion to the state\u2019s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Jacksonville resident Billy Pitman, 61, recently claimed a $1 million prize from the Florida Lottery\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,99355,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-443002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-lottery","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115708428436387040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}