‘Mystery Millionaire’ Winners List Posted!

The drawing has been completed this morning and the list of winners in our “Mystery Millionaire” promotion has just been posted! We’re including the entire list here to make things easy for our blog followers, but you can also find the info. on our website.

Here are the 15 contestants (alphabetically by last name) who will join us Aug. 19 on the Grand Concourse at the Iowa State Fair for the Mystery Millionaire finale event. Each of these lucky folks will win at least $25,000 that day and one of them will take home the $1 million top prize!

Thuan Duffert, Des Moines
Betty Freilinger, Monona
Joseph Holmes, Muscatine
Janese Hopkins, Cedar Rapids
Kathy Kasner, Ferguson
Kandy Lorimer, Fairfax
Allison Martin, Cedar Falls
Brenda Mertens, Vinton
Chuck Noty, Garner
Elena Reddersdorf, Eldridge
Kevin Reynolds, Bettendorf
Richard Ritze, Alburnett
Douglas Steenson, Waukee
Dean Stuhr, Des Moines
Sheree Watson, Charles City

And here is the list of 34 players who each won a $10,000 prize in today’s drawing:

Frank Anderson, Clinton
Diane Bales, Cedar Rapids
Judy Bauer, Walker
Tim Brooks, Goldfield
Terry Bryant, Pleasant Hill
Rick Charbonneau, Logan
Doug Conner, Wausaukee, WI
Gary Dezell, Atkins
Judy Fox, Waterloo
Louis Harvey, Ottumwa
Debbra Hebert, Solon
Ronald Huber, Delhi
Patty Laire, Elliott
Debra Lamar, Bettendorf
Janice Megel, Des Moines
Charlie Miller, Bouton
Billie Mims, Cedar Rapids
J C Nobbe, Rockwell City
Linda Northouse, Des Moines
Ricky Peterson, Fort Dodge
Tim Rau, Council Bluffs
Norm Roller, Yetter
Chad Sadler, Hopkinton
Sarah Scogin, Waterloo
Gayle Seehusen, Cedar Rapids
Darwin Stock, Waverly
Harve Sultan, Davenport
James Temple, South Point, OH
Kathryn Van Brocklin, Lansing
Nancy Vincent, Story City
Katie Vriezelaar, Urbandale
Martin Wadle, Algona
Jennifer Winn, Hawarden
Amee Wyatt, Farmington

It’s great to see winners from all over the state in today’s results! If your name is on the list, please check the promotions page on our website for further instructions. If you have questions, you are welcome to call us at the lottery at 515-725-7900. 

Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to everyone who entered!

 

 

Comments

[Mary Neubauer]

Thanks for commenting to the blog. We love to see Iowa winners, too! And the thing to keep in mind is that a lottery by its very definition is a game that can be played -- and won -- by anyone from anywhere, so long as you are of legal age to buy a ticket. If we were to restrict who can win our games, we wouldn't be a lottery. When you travel to another state, we'll bet you want to know that you can buy tickets there and have a shot at winning a prize there. The same is true for anyone who happens to be here in Iowa!

this is the IOWA lottery supported by IOWA players, so if a out of state ticket is drawn I that it should be voided, only IOWA people are elgible to wing

[Michelle]

I would love to know why there were so Few winners from Western Iowa. NO winners from Sioux City ? Really, but there was a winner from South Point OHIO ?

[Mary Neubauer]

Hi, Mike. Great question, and thanks for commenting to the blog.

We do have winners from all over Iowa in all our games and promotions, and sometimes from other states as well. It truly is random luck that determines the winners in lottery games. Now, it is true that if you have more tickets being sold at a particular retail location or in an area, there will be more winners there. That is simply based upon the volume of business and the overall population. The overall payout in the Iowa Lottery's games is about 55 percent, so if you have one store where 300 tickets are sold in a particular day, there likely will be about 165 winners there. That's not a hard and fast number, as winning tickets are randomly distributed, but that's about what the payout percentage would predict. If you have a store with a lower volume of business and only 20 tickets are sold there, there likely would only be 11 winners there. The odds of winning are the same for everyone, but the volume of business in a particular area makes a difference. The same is true for promotions of any kind.

2 Million plus interest over 2012.2011. sold 200.000 tickets 5 X 200.000 = 1 million. now your ahead 3 million. drawings of 1 million plus another 1 million leaves 1 million in the bank. plus interest. no wonder you publish your figures in todays Register...
No hard working Iowas make 1 Million in wages a year....
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