Sheryl Crossett said she visited the Iowa Lottery's Web site and looked at the scratch tickets with the largest top prizes and the most top prizes left to win. She decided on Lucky Diamonds, and then bought a ticket. "I went back to my vehicle and I scratched the ticket, and I couldn't believe it!" said Crossett. "So I went back inside and I asked if anybody had better eyes than me because I wanted to be sure it was real!" The Petropointe 11408 Forest Ave. in Clive sold this winning lotto ticket.
Kim Hertel won a $500,000 prize and five other lottery players from Iowa and Kansas won $10,000 prizes in a joint drawing by the Kansas and Iowa lotteries. Kim Hertel of Washington was selected as the top-prize winner of $500,000 in the "Midwest Millions" drawing conducted by lottery officials in Topeka, Kan. "This isn't a joke is it?" Hertel asked when she was contacted Friday by lottery officials. "$500,000? For me? My legs are going numb, I have to sit down!"
Robert Kelley hit the Iowa Powerball lotto for $200,000. About four or five years ago, Robert Kelley's wife, Carolyn, tracked the Powerball numbers to help find their lucky set of numbers. "My wife kept track of all the winning numbers for about three months," explained Kelley to lottery staff. They made a list of the ones that hit most often and have been playing the same numbers ever since.
"My wife, she was going to bed last night and I told her to come downstairs, I had something to show her," laughed Kelley. "She couldn't believe it. She says, 'What?' I said, 'Come down here.' She got downstairs and I said, 'Look here, we got the winning numbers!' She still didn't believe it." "We're going to pay our house off and our vehicles. Put the rest in savings," stated Kelley. The Casey's store 504 S. Main St. in North English sold this winning lotto ticket.
10/24/09 10 Iowa Co-Workers from the Des Moines Firestone plant tire plant claimed $1 million Powerball jackpot from the 10/10/09 Powerball lottery. Firestone plant are calling themselves“ The Local 310 Ten” because they re all members of Local 310 of the United Steelworkers Union. They’ve pooled their money to buy Powerball tickets together for about five years and made as news of their good fortune spread. Dan Kelley of Urbandale bought the winning ticket at Casey s, 4560 E. 14th St. in Des Moines. As the group claimed its prize, the members of The Local 310 Ten were pooling their money to buy more tickets for the next drawing.
10/04/09 Aaron McDermott picked up his $10,000 playing Hot Lotto jackpot from the 9/26/09 drawing. The Jamboree Foods 1119 Market St. in Gowrie sold this winning Iowa lotto ticket. McDermott won a $10,000 prize by matching the first five numbers.
09/22/09 KANSAS, IOWA LOTTERY BEGIN THIRD EDITION Joint multi state instant scratcher has successful record, begins 2009 sales this week The popularity of the nation's first instant-scratch game sold in 2 states Kansas and Iowa to release a third version of "Midwest Millions."
One $1 million cash sold ticket in Wisconsin hit 5 white ball numbers with PowerPlay 2 $200K cash winners, one in Iowa and one in Kansas.
08/22/09 $1 Million Powerball Prize.The Chambers of Columbia and Rick Hamilton and Sharon Susler of Chariton bought this winning ticket together while camping. The Hy-Vee Gas station 4910 Maple Drive in Pleasant Hill, Iowa sold this winning lotto ticket.
08/15/09 TAYLOR COUNTY WOMAN WINS $30,000 LOTTERY PRIZE Carol Sockrider began scratching her Crossword ticket before she went to work at Michael Foods in Lenox, but didn't finish it until she got home that night. "I thought I'd won $3,000 and so we took it to the Casey's in Bedford and they verified it at $30,000, so it was a surprise!" Sockrider said with a laugh. Sockrider claimed her prize Monday at the Iowa Lottery's headquarters in Des Moines. Casey's 209 S. Brooks St. in Lenox sold this winning Iowa lotto ticket.
06/22/09 Lucinda Pena wins $200,000 Prize on the 6/20/09 Powerball drawing The Hy-Vee store at 2400 Second Ave. in Muscatine sold this winning lotto ticket. The winning IA Powerball numbers on June 20 were 3-11-18-22-28 and Powerball 33. The Power Play multiplier was 2.
05/20/09 Another round of security checks shows all lottery prizes properly paid. Lottery Conducts Checks In 10 Counties As Powerball Jackpot Continues To Climb DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Lottery has conducted another round of unannounced security checks at retail locations across the state to see how winning tickets would be handled, and all prizes again were properly paid by store personnel.
Lottery investigators posing as customers visited 66 randomly-selected retail locations May 12-13, presenting tickets for cashing that each had won prizes of up to $100. In every instance, the location paid the correct amount. The lottery continued to vary its approach in the security checks, with most of this month's visits occurring at night.
The latest checks followed earlier rounds conducted by the lottery in February and April, when its investigators visited a total of 140 Iowa retail locations. All prizes were paid correctly in those instances as well.
Russ Twelmeyer said "To be honest with you, it's the first time I did not get a good night's sleep," The Quik Trip store 4024 Fleur Dr. in Des Moines sold this winning Iowa lotto ticket. "And on the last one, when I scratched it, I thought it was $250," he said. "And then I thought it was $2,500, so I decided to put my 'specs' on. And I realized there were four zeroes after the 25!"
Shirley Caldwell hits $100,000 with the Iowa $100,000 Cash Game When Shirley Caldwell grabbed her ticket from home to have it checked, She was not aware that the Pronto store had sold a$100,000-winning ticket. The Pronto store 7305 La Porte Road in Washburn Iowa sold this winning lotto ticket. I got in the car and I went home, and I got in my garage and threw some garbage away," said Caldwell. "And I thought, 'Oh my gosh. I'm going to throw up. I won $100,000! That's when it hit me. It took a few blocks.
Someone in Iowa matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play for $1 MILLION cash.
Jennifer Newkirk hits the top jackpot prize in an Iowa instant scratch game. While at work at the Sun Market & Deli, she bought some scratch tickets. "I just bought the Crosswords to go on break with," explained Newkirk. "I thought that it couldn't be right. And I still didn't think it was right until I ran it in the machine." She has claimed her prize at the Iowa Lottery Storm Lake office in Storm Lake.
Larry Goranson picks up his lotto jackpot from the 12/27/08 Powerball Drawing at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Cedar Rapids. The Pronto Market 316 E. Main in Manchester sold this winning Powerball ticket. The winning Powerball numbers were: 12-15-26-31-43 and Powerball 10 in that $72.3 million Powerball jackpot drawing.
Marina Weis of Lacona has picked up her Hot Lotto jackpot at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Des Moines. "We are going to pour a concrete slab for our camper," Marina Weis of Lacona said Friday. "That's what we plan on doing. And then we'll take the camper in because there e are a few things that need fixed with it." Casey's 203 S. Lincoln in Knoxville sold this winning Iowa Lotto ticket.
DES MOINES, Iowa: Timothy Kline picks up his Powerball jackpot at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Des Moines. The Casey's store 100 N. 5th St. in Guthrie Center sold this winning Powerball ticket. The winning numbers were: 11-26-31-34-52 and Powerball 14 in the $20 million Powerball jackpot drawing. The Power Play multiplier was 2. If Tim played the Power Play option he would have won $20,000.
11/12/08 She was just following her instincts when she played the Powerball lotto. "I bought my ticket four minutes before the cutoff," Tina De Anda said Friday as she claimed her jackpot at the Iowa Lottery's office. "Something told me to go get one, so I had to hurry. I was just at home cleaning and I had a feeling. De Anda plays Powerball occasionally and when she does make a purchase, it's for just one ticket. "I still can't believe it happened," she said. "I thought never in my life it would happen to me, so that's unbelievable." The Hawkeye Convenience Store at 1581 First Ave. S.E. in Cedar Rapids sold this winning Powerball ticket.