Lottery player claims $20.5M prize over a week later in Florida. Where was it sold?

UPDATE: The winner has come forward to claim the prize, the Florida Lottery shared Aug. 16. Because of the prize amount, their name is “temporarily exempt from public discloser” under Florida law, officials said. The winner opted for a cash option of $11,729,166.

The original story is below.

A lottery ticket worth $20.5 million was sold in Florida, but the winner hasn’t come forward yet to claim the prize.

The Florida Lotto ticket was sold at a Murphy USA gas station in Kissimmee and won the rolling jackpot in the Aug. 7 drawing, according to the Florida Lottery.

Players can choose their own combination of six numbers ranging from 1 to 53 or have the numbers auto-generated for them.

The ticket buyer chose their own numbers and matched all six, beating the 1-in-22,957,480 odds of doing so, lottery officials said.

The winning numbers were 10-11-14-17-39-49.

As of the morning of Aug. 12, no one had claimed the prize, records show.

Lottery officials advise winners to sign their tickets right away to establish ownership. Lottery winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes.

Kissimmee is in central Florida, about a 25-mile drive south from downtown Orlando.

This story was originally published August 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM with the headline "Lottery player claims $20.5M prize over a week later in Florida. Where was it sold?."