OSKALOOSA WOMAN CHECKS WINNING TICKET MULTIPLE TIMES

Amy Weir

Amy Weir Wins $30,000 Top Prize Playing ‘Jumble®’ Scratch Game

DES MOINES, Iowa –After checking her ticket multiple times, an Oskaloosa woman said she started to believe she had won a $30,000 top prize playing the Iowa Lottery’s “Jumble®” instant-scratch game.

“I think I was just really in shock. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know whether to call people,” Amy Weir said.

Weir claimed the fifth of 13 top prizes of $30,000 available in the Jumble® game. She claimed her prize Friday at the lottery’s headquarters in Des Moines. She purchased her winning ticket at Hy-Vee, 320 West St. S. in Grinnell.

Weir said she plans to use her lottery winnings to pay off some student loans.

Jumble® is a $3 scratch game. Players reveal the 18 “your letters” and scratch all matching letters found in each of the five Jumble games. If they match all the “Jumble” letters in a word with “your letters,” they win the prize shown for that game. The overall odds of winning a prize in the game are 1 in 3.64.

Eight top prizes of $30,000 are still up for grabs in Jumble®, as well as 66 prizes of $1,000 and hundreds of prizes of $100.

Since the lottery’s start in 1985, its players have won more than $3.1 billion in prizes while the lottery has raised more than $1.5 billion for the state programs that benefit all Iowans.

Today, lottery proceeds in Iowa have three main purposes: They provide support for veterans, 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.