CLIVE, Iowa—A Minneapolis woman has won a $50,000 lottery prize on a lottery ticket she purchased in Boone.
Miranda Wiens won the sixth top prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Holiday Riches” scratch game. She purchased her winning ticket at Flash Mart, 315 Story St. in Boone, and claimed her prize Monday at the lottery’s Mason City regional office.
Holiday Riches is a $5 scratch game that features eight top prizes of $50,000 and overall odds of 1 in 3.85.
Players can enter nonwinning holiday scratch tickets into the lottery’s Winner Wonderland® Play It Again® promotion from now through 8:59 a.m. on Jan. 5. The promotion features $640,000 in cash prizes, including a $250,000 grand prize. For rules and complete details, visit ialottery.com.
Lottery Winner Miranda Wiens bought winning ticket in Boone
| About the Iowa Lottery: Since the lottery’s start in 1985, its players have won more than $4.6 billion in prizes while the lottery has raised more than $2 billion for state programs. Today, lottery proceeds have four main purposes in Iowa. They provide help for our state’s veterans and their families through the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund; support through the Iowa Public Safety Survivor Benefits Fund for the surviving family members of Iowa peace officers and fire fighters who die in the line of duty; help for a variety of significant projects through the state General Fund; and backing for the Vision Iowa program, which was implemented to create tourism destinations and community attractions in the state and build and repair schools. |
(contributed press release, IA Lottery)
