GUTHRIE COUNTY MAN WINS $30,000 LOTTERY PRIZE

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Doug Nance Wins Top Prize Playing the "Crossword" Scratch Game

DES MOINES, Iowa – A Guthrie County man has won the top prize of $30,000 playing the lottery's "Crossword" instant-scratch game.

Doug Nance of Bagley claimed his prize Wednesday at the Iowa Lottery's headquarters in Des Moines. He bought his winning ticket at Quik Trip, 2300 Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy in Des Moines.

Crossword is a $3 scratch game. Players win a prize by uncovering at least three complete words in the ticket's puzzle. If a player uncovers 10 words, he/she wins $30,000. The overall odds of winning in the game are about 1 in 4.

Ninety-one prizes of $30,000 are still up for grabs in Crossword as well as 138 prizes of $3,000, more than 2,000 prizes of $300 and more than 9,700 prizes of $100.

Since the Iowa Lottery's start in 1985, its players have won more than $2.4 billion in prizes while the lottery has raised more than $1.2 billion for state programs.