Lottery Luck Continues For Clinton Woman

A familiar face to us here at the lottery just claimed a $25,000 scratch-game prize.

Back in 2006, Beth Determan of Clinton was part of a group of co-workers who hit it big, winning $667,142 in Powerball's Match 5 bonus system. Each member of the "Lucky 20" group from Medical Associates in Clinton won $33,357.10 before taxes.

Now Determan has won a $25,000 prize in the "Bingo Times 10" scratch game. She says it's like déjà vu!

Determan said she and her husband, Dennis, were on their way to visit her brother in Iowa City when they stopped at a local gas station and Dennis bought her a couple scratch tickets to help pass the time on their drive down. She said she played the tickets and initially thought she’d won $15. But her husband told her to check again.

Determan said that's when she realized that the numbers she’d matched on the ticket formed an "X" on one of the Bingo cards in the play area, and that meant a prize of $25,000.

Determan says she has a large family of five girls, so they’ll definitely put her prize to use! She says they have a wedding coming up and a graduation next fall, just to name a few items on the list.

So does Determan consider herself lucky? She says some family members say she is, but she's not sure. She says she just likes to play lottery tickets, and she wins prizes here and there.

And as for that group at her work? Yep, they're still playing Powerball together, shooting to win the jackpot!