MOUNT PLEASANT WOMAN WINS $30,000 LOTTERY PRIZE

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Lila Wilson Wins Top Prize Playing the "Crossword" Scratch Game

DES MOINES, Iowa – A Mount Pleasant woman won the top prize of $30,000 playing the "Crossword" instant-scratch game.

Lila Wilson claimed her prize Monday at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Cedar Rapids. She bought her winning ticket at Hy-Vee, 1702 E. Washington St. in Mount Pleasant.

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.

Twenty prizes of $30,000 are still up for grabs in Crossword as well as 29 prizes of $3,000, over 440 prizes of $300 and more than 2,190 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.