BUENA VISTA COUNTY WOMAN WINS $12,000 LOTTERY PRIZE

Janice Trebesch Wins Top Prize Playing the "Double Cherry Twist" Scratch Game

DES MOINES, Iowa – A Buena Vista County woman won the top prize of $12,000 playing the lottery's "Double Cherry Twist" instant-scratch game.

Janice Trebesch of Sioux Rapids claimed her prize Tuesday at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Storm Lake. She purchased her winning ticket at Sioux Food Center, 621 Highway 71 in Sioux Rapids.

The Double Cherry Twist scratch game is a $2 ticket. If players match any three like symbols in the same spin, they win the amount of the prize shown. If players find the "cherry" symbol, they win double the prize shown. If players find the "twist" symbol, they win all ten prizes shown instantly. Overall odds in the game are 1 in 3.56.

Twelve top prizes of $12,000 are still up for grabs in the Double Cherry Twist game, along with 194 prizes of $200 prizes and 257 prizes of $100.

Since the Iowa Lottery's inception 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.