Love that this central Iowa guy is giving us all a new reason to smile at a time we REALLY need it!
You may remember Tyler Heep of Urbandale from the international headlines he stirred up in January 2019. At the time, Tyler won a $1 prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Stinking Rich” scratch game.
But rather than claiming his winnings at a store like most people do, Tyler came to see us at lottery headquarters in Clive and asked if we’d give him one of our ceremonial checks for his admittedly small prize.
We said that of course we would, so we wrote out one of our oversized checks to him in the amount of $1 and we took his picture. After some laughter all around, he went on his way.
A couple days later, Tyler posted that picture of him proudly posing with his $1 check online and the world went crazy for it. His story was shared across the country and even made international headlines as media outlets wrote about his “big” win.
Fast forward to this month and Tyler is posting about his win again. He says that even more than a year later, people keep asking if he’s the guy who got a $1 check from the lottery. So he had the check, the photo we took of him, and a $1 bill custom framed to go on his wall.
He said he’s changing his profile picture to the shot of him above so he can definitively say that yes, he IS that $1 winner.
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