$5 PRIZE MULTIPLIES TO $50,000 IN AN INSTANT

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Betty Andrews Wins Top Prize Playing the "Double Payday" Scratch Game

DES MOINES, Iowa – Standing in the middle of a store full of people, a Fort Dodge woman discovered she had won a $50,000 lottery prize!

Betty Andrews, 56, thought she had only won $5, but as she finished scratching her "Double Payday" instant ticket, she realized it was much more than that.

"I thought, 'Well, I won my five dollars back,' and then I scratched the rest of it off and saw what I did win!" Andrews said.

Andrews, who works as an inspections operator for Electrolux in Webster City, said the reaction in the store was just like hers – shock.

"They were just saying, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, look what you won!' They were all excited," she said.

Andrews then hurried out to the car to show her daughter, who was waiting.

"She said, 'Mom, I can't believe it!'" Andrews said.

When she got home, she broke the news to her husband Richard.

"I told my husband we had a problem and we needed to talk about it. He said, 'What?' And I said, 'How are we going to spend this?' He was excited about it too," she said.

Andrews said she plans to use her winnings to take a trip to Georgia to spend Thanksgiving with her family.

"I'm not going to tell them until we hit Atlanta. I'm going to surprise them!" she said.

Andrews claimed her ticket Friday at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Mason City. She purchased her winning ticket at Tobacco Outlet Plus, 3105 Fifth Ave. S. in Fort Dodge.

"You can't win if you don't play," Andrews added.

Double Payday consists of an instant-scratch ticket on the front and a pull-tab game on the back. The ticket has three play areas on the front of the ticket and four tabs that can be pulled open on the back. Overall odds of winning are about 1 in 3.85.

Five prizes of $50,000 are still up for grabs in Double Payday as well as 38 prizes of $1,000, more than 100 prizes of $250 as well as more than 300 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 nearly $1.2 billion for state programs.