LAKE PARK, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2026) — A Palm Beach County man has claimed a $1 million Florida Lottery prize after buying a winning Scratch-Off ticket at a store in Lake Park.
Matthew Fox, 53, of North Palm Beach, claimed the prize from the Florida Lottery’s $1,000,000 HOLIDAY CA$H Scratch-Off game at Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee on Dec. 1. He chose to take the money as a one-time lump-sum payment of $606,700.
The winning ticket was purchased at Village Grocery, 9271 Prosperity Farms Road in Lake Park.
The win ties Palm Beach County to another seven-figure Florida Lottery prize, this time through one of the state’s seasonal Scratch-Off games. For local readers, the key details are simple: the winner lives in North Palm Beach, the ticket was sold in Lake Park, and the claim was processed through Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
The $1,000,000 HOLIDAY CA$H game is a $20 Scratch-Off ticket with a top prize of $1 million. The Florida Lottery says the game offers players chances to win up to 21 times on a single ticket. It also says the game features more than 3 million winning tickets and more than $125 million in total cash prizes, with overall odds of winning listed at 1-in-2.68.
Scratch-Off games remain a major part of the Florida Lottery’s business. The Lottery says Scratch-Off tickets made up about 74 percent of ticket sales during the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
Since the Florida Lottery launched, Scratch-Off games have awarded more than $70.8 billion in prizes, created 2,475 millionaires, and generated more than $20.98 billion for the state’s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund.
The Florida Lottery says it is responsible for generating more than $50 billion to enhance education and has helped send more than 1 million students to Florida colleges, universities and technical schools through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program.
It also says it reinvests 99 percent of its revenue into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions paid to more than 13,600 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $104.8 billion in prizes and created more than 4,475 millionaires.
For residents in northern Palm Beach County, the story is mostly a straight local win tied to a neighborhood retailer. Village Grocery now joins the long list of Florida Lottery retailers that have sold a top-winning Scratch-Off ticket, and North Palm Beach has its latest million-dollar winner.
Nothing in the Lottery announcement indicates any further public proceeding tied to the claim. The prize has already been claimed, the payment option has already been selected, and the winning store has been identified.
Residents who follow Lottery news should know the Florida Lottery routinely publishes winner announcements like this one after prizes are claimed. In this case, the local angle is centered on where the winner lives, where the ticket was sold, and how much of the advertised prize was taken as a lump-sum payout rather than as annuity-style payments.
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