I have purchased many lottery tickets from Publix and have yet to get this lucky. When I lived in Fort Myers I was always at the Publix located off of Colonial buying scratch off tickets. Well, A man from Delaware who was visiting Florida  just had the vacation of a life time. While in Palm Beach County, Peter Sullivan stopped at a Publix to buy a lottery ticket and won $5M! The Game he played was the Gold Rush Limited Scratch Off Game.  He chose to receive his  winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $3,960,000.