Check Your Tickets: A $1 million lottery ticket has been sold in Iowa
If you bought a Nevada, Iowa lottery ticket for the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, be sure to check your numbers because one lucky player won a million dollars. The winning ticket matches the first five numbers in the game – 7-9-15-19-25 – to win $1 million but missed the Mega Ball, 4, which would have bumped the prize to $20 million. The Casey store in Nevada where the ticket was sold will receive a $1,000 reward, according to Iowa Lottery officials. And it just so happens to be the same store where the million-dollar winning Powerball ticket was purchased in April 2019. This prize has never been claimed, and it’s the third Iowa Lottery win of at least $500,000 just this month. A Dubuque man took home a $40.03 million Lotto America jackpot, according to a press release from the Iowa Lottery, and a Davenport man took home a $500,000 prize in an Iowa Lottery scratcher game. Lottery officials reminded players in the statement that prizes of $1 million or more must be claimed at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive. Another Unclaimed $1 Million Mega Millions Ticket According to the Iowa Lottery, there is still another $1 million unclaimed ticket. Someone has matched the first five digits of September 6, 2022, based on a ticket purchased at the Gateway Express in Ames. The winner has until September 6, 2023 to claim the prize. Three other six-figure prizes won on lottery tickets purchased in Iowa remain unclaimed: Powerball ticket won $150,000 Oct. 29, 2022 drawing purchased at Floyd Food & Fuel in Sioux City. Expires October 30, 2023. Powerball ticket won $150,000 was purchased November 5, 2022 from Hy-Vee Convenience Store in Sheldon. Expires November 6, 2023. Powerball ticket won $100,000 purchased November 7, 2022 at Casey’s Store in Dubuque. Expires Nov. 7, 2023 2018 Iowa Lottery Biggest Jackpot Winners: Lerynne West of Redfield, $343.9 Million Powerball 2012: The Shipping 20 (Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats Factory Coworkers), $241 Million Powerball 2012: Family Lohse from Bondurant, $202.1 million Powerball 2006: Timothy Guderian from Fort Dodge, $200.8 million Powerball 2006: Hugh Hawkins Des Moines, $113.2 million Powerball
If you bought a Nevada, Iowa lottery ticket for the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, be sure to check your numbers because one lucky player won a million dollars.
The winning ticket matches the first five numbers in the game – 7-9-15-19-25 – to win $1 million but missed out on the Mega Ball, 4, which would have raised the prize to $20 million.
The Casey store in Nevada where the ticket was sold will receive a $1,000 reward, according to Iowa Lottery officials. It also happens to be the same store where the million dollar Powerball ticket was purchased in April 2019. This prize has never been claimed.
It’s Iowa’s third lottery win of at least $500,000 this month.
A Dubuque man took home a $40.03 million Lotto America jackpot, according to a press release from the Iowa Lottery, and a Davenport man took home a $500,000 prize in an Iowa Lottery scratcher.
Lottery officials reminded players in the statement that prizes of $1 million or more must be claimed at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.
Another unclaimed $1 million ticket
According to the Iowa Lottery, there is another one The Mega Million Dollar Ticket is unclaimed Still there. Someone has matched the first five digits of September 6, 2022, based on a ticket purchased at the Gateway Express in Ames. The winner has until September 6, 2023 to claim the prize.
Three other six-figure prizes won on lottery tickets purchased in Iowa went unclaimed:
- Powerball ticket won $150,000 purchased October 29, 2022 at Floyd Food & Fuel in Sioux City. Expires October 30, 2023.
- The $150,000 Powerball ticket won on November 5, 2022 was purchased at a Hy-Vee convenience store in Sheldon. Expires November 6, 2023.
- Powerball ticket won $100,000 November 7, 2022 purchased at Casey’s Store in Dubuque. Expires November 7, 2023.
Biggest Iowa Lottery jackpot winners
- 2018: Lerynne West of Redfield, $343.9 million Powerball
- 2012: The Shipping 20 (Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats Factory Coworkers), $241 million Powerball
- 2012: Bondurant’s Lohse Family, $202.1 million from Powerball
- 2006: Timothy Guderian of Fort Dodge, $200.8 million Powerball
- 2006: Hugh Hawkins of Des Moines, $113.2 million Powerball
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