{"id":54781,"date":"2022-09-09T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54781"},"modified":"2022-09-09T02:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:29:59","slug":"alva-woman-wins-1m-from-gold-rush-scratch-off-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/09\/alva-woman-wins-1m-from-gold-rush-scratch-off-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Alva woman wins $1M from \u201cGold Rush\u201d scratch-off ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An Alva woman has claimed a $1 million prize from a scratch-off game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christina Baldino, of\u202fAlva, chose to\u202freceive her\u202fwinnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $880,000, according to a news release from the Florida Lottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baldino won the money from the BILLION DOLLAR GOLD RUSH SUPREME\u202fScratch-Off game\u202fat the Lottery\u2019s Fort Myers District Office.\u202f She \u202fpurchased\u202fher\u202fwinning ticket from\u202fHandy Food, located at 21321 SR-80. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning scratch-off ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $30 BILLION DOLLAR GOLD RUSH SUPREME scratch-off game features\u202ffour\u202ftop prizes of $15 million and also features 24 prizes of $1 million. The overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scratch-off games are an important part of the Lottery\u2019s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 77% of ticket sales and generating more than $1.8 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund in the fiscal year 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alva woman has claimed a $1 million prize from a scratch-off game. Christina Baldino, of\u202fAlva, chose to\u202freceive her\u202fwinnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $880,000, according to a news&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54783,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54781\/revisions\/54783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}