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It's A Throwback For Our 40th Anniversary

Forty years after we did it the first time, the Iowa Lottery is inviting you again to Scratch, Match & Win!

You read that right: The lottery is turning 40 this year. And to celebrate the moment, a throwback version of our very first game has just arrived in stores.

Tickets in 2025’s version of the Scratch, Match & Win game feature artwork of a hand holding a coin to scratch a ticket, a lot like the lottery’s original scratch game from August 1985. But today’s version is a $5 game with instant prizes of up to $50,000. And its tickets are a lot bigger than those from 40 years ago!

If you don’t win a cash prize on your Scratch, Match & Win ticket, you can enter it into a promotion for a chance to win concert prize packages to the Iowa State Fair Grandstand or cash prizes of up to $100,000.

The Scratch, Match & Win promotion has just opened for entries today. You can enter eligible tickets through the morning of Sept. 17.

The promotion will have 2 drawing dates. The first on July 22 will be for 87 concert prize packages to 2025 performances at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand. Each Grandstand ticket prize package includes 4 concert tickets, 4 Iowa State Fair admission tickets, a parking pass for the Fair, and $400 spending money.

The promotion’s second drawing date on Sept. 18 will be for 51 cash prizes ranging from $1,000 up to the grand prize of $100,000.

By The Numbers, 40 Years Of Lottery

Legislation allowing a lottery in Iowa was signed into law on April 18, 1985, and Iowa Lottery sales began a little more than 4 months later with a kick-off celebration on Aug. 22, 1985, at the Iowa State Fair.

By the numbers, here’s a look at 40 years of a lottery in Iowa.

$10.4 billion	Total Iowa Lottery sales
$6.1 billion	Total prizes won by Iowa Lottery players
$2.5 billion	Total lottery proceeds raised for Iowa causes
$722.5 million	Total lottery sales commissions paid to the local Iowa businesses that sell lottery tickets
$343.9 million	Largest lottery prize won in Iowa. A Redfield woman claimed that Powerball® jackpot on Nov. 5, 2018.
6.4 million	Number of lottery tickets sold during the lottery’s first week of sales
2,500	Number of retail locations in Iowa that sell lottery tickets
189	Number of Iowa Lottery tickets to date that have won prizes of $1 million or more
9	Number of Powerball jackpots won to date by Iowa Lottery players

JURASSIC WORLD Second Chance Promotion from the Iowa Lottery

Dinosaurs and lottery prizes together? Yep, it’s happening in Iowa!

Two new games featuring iconic dinosaur-themed images have hit stores this week and a promotion tied to them will give you even more chances to win. The JURASSIC PARK Progressive InstaPlay game debuted Sunday here in Iowa. Tickets in the JURASSIC WORLD scratch game are beginning to arrive in stores today and will be available statewide by the end of the week.

The 2 games are tied to the JURASSIC WORLD Second Chance Promotion from the Iowa Lottery that will award 10 prizes of $10,000 and 2 trip packages to Hawaii where the winner will participate in an exciting event with the chance to win up to a $1 million prize!

Tickets in the JURASSIC PARK Progressive InstaPlay game and JURASSIC WORLD scratch cost $10 each, with multiple ways to win instant prizes. The scratch game features a top prize of $100,000, while the InstaPlay game has a progressive jackpot that starts at $10,000 and grows with each ticket purchased statewide until it is won.

How The Promotion Works & The Prizes Involved

The new promotion opened for entries at 10 a.m. today. Members of the lottery’s free VIP Club can enter it with nonwinning tickets in the JURASSIC PARK Progressive InstaPlay game or the JURASSIC WORLD scratch game. The entry period runs through 9:59 a.m. on Oct. 1, and the promotion will have 2 drawing dates.

On Aug. 14, the Iowa Lottery will select 5 promotion prize winners of $10,000 each. And on Oct. 2, the lottery will select 5 more winners of $10,000 each along with the 2 trip prize winners.

Each trip package, valued at nearly $17,000, includes:

• roundtrip airfare for 2 from any U.S. international airport to Honolulu, Hawaii (November 2026)
• a 5-night hotel stay (double occupancy) in Oahu, Hawaii
• $2,500 in spending money
• a welcome reception and choice of curated tour or activities in and around Oahu
• ground transfers between the destination airport and hotel, and if necessary, between hosted activities and events
• the winner’s participation along with other U.S. lottery trip winners in the $1,000,000 JACKPOT CHALLENGE Event, for a chance for all trip winners to win cash prizes of up to $1 million.

The Drawing Details

Players will choose the prize category they prefer at the time they make an entry into the promotion. Entries will not carry over from one drawing to the next.

And, while the odds of this happening are long: If you enter each promotion category, you could win a $10,000 cash prize on each drawing date and a trip prize package.

Here are the promotion’s key dates:

Entry Period	Drawing Date	Prize	Number of Winners
10 a.m. June 3 - 9:59 a.m. Aug. 13	August 14	$10,000	5
10 a.m. Aug. 13 - 9:59 a.m. Oct. 1	October 2	$10,000	5
10 a.m. June 3 - 9:59 a.m. Oct. 1	October 2	Hawaii trip and $1,000,000 JACKPOT CHALLENGE Event	2

© Universal City Studios LLC and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Universal is not a sponsor or administrator of this Promotion.

Seeing the Return of a Legend in Iowa for Free! What Could be Better?

This is a big one! We just announced our Greatness Returns contest that will give lucky winners the chance to see an Iowa legend return as the Indiana Fever play the Brazilian National Team in a WNBA exhibition game in Iowa City.

We’ll have two winners in this contest. Both will win a pair of tickets to see the game on May 4 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena™. And the very best part – there’s no purchase necessary to enter for a chance to win the tickets to this sold-out game! It’s entirely free.

Here’s How to Enter

To enter, you must be at least 21 years old and a member of the Iowa Lottery VIP Club. If you’re already a VIP Club member, you’ll receive details through your account about how to enter. New VIP Club members will get those instructions after completing their account registration. If you’re not yet a member of the VIP Club, sign up online at ialottery.com.

Entries are limited to one per person. And it’s only a 10-day entry period, so don’t sleep on this! You can enter now through 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, April 24. We’ll announce the two winners on April 25.

Witness the Return

This game marks the return of an Iowa legend to Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and that’s why the Iowa Lottery is offering this opportunity to our players. We love providing Iowans a chance to experience our state’s top events, and it doesn’t get any bigger than the return of an Iowa legend.

So make sure you’re entered in the Greatness Returns contest and start thinking about who you’d take with you for a truly unforgettable experience!

INDIANA FEVER is a trademark owned by WNBA Enterprises, LLC.

Powerball® Double Play® Tickets Are Your Shot At Seeing NASCAR®, Winning $1 Million

NASCAR® is returning to Iowa this summer, and we’re giving away dozens of prize packages for lottery winners to experience a full weekend of racing at Iowa Speedway®. And that’s not all!

We’re also giving away prize packages of $3,000 cash plus a qualifying entry into the national NASCAR Powerball Playoff™ promotion. One lucky winner in it will ultimately win $1 million in a live drawing before the start of the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race™ this fall in Arizona.

In all, we’re giving away a total of 95 prize packages!

In the images above, you can see the fun our 2024 NASCAR promotion winners had at Iowa Speedway, and it could be your turn this year!

VIP Club members can enter the Iowa Lottery’s NASCAR Race Weekend promotion with any Powerball® Double Play® ticket (minimum $3 play) purchased in Iowa from today through the end of the entry period on the morning of June 23.

Prize Packages To Iowa Speedway

There will be 3 days of NASCAR racing Aug. 1-3 at Iowa Speedway, with the ARCA Menards Series™ Atlas Roofing 150 race on Aug. 1; the NASCAR Xfinity Series™ Hy-Vee Perks 250 race on Aug. 2; and the NASCAR Cup Series™ Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol race on Aug. 3.

All of the ticket prize packages we’re giving away to Iowa Speedway will be for the entire race weekend. Here are the details about those prize packages:

60 people will win a NASCAR Grandstand race weekend prize package, which includes:

• 4 grandstand tickets for all 3 days of NASCAR racing this summer at Iowa Speedway
• exclusive co-branded merchandise
• $1,000 spending money

15 people will win a VIP Suite NASCAR race weekend prize package, which includes:

• 2 suite tickets for all 3 days of NASCAR racing this summer at Iowa Speedway
• complimentary food, water and soda in the suite
• pace car ride
• exclusive meet-and-greet including autograph and photo opportunities with a Cup Series champion driver
• private trailer tour including a guided garage tour
• merchandise prize pack valued at more than $325
• $300 spending money

Prize Packages Of Cash + Entry In National Promo

20 people will win $3,000 cash and become an Iowa qualifier in the national NASCAR Powerball Playoff promotion.

• From among all the qualifiers chosen by lotteries across the country in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff, 16 national semi-finalists will be selected. The semi-finalists each will win even more money.
• Through a series of drawings, the number of national semifinalists will be whittled down from the initial 16 until just 4 finalists remain. The longer a semifinalist stays in the running, the more they’ll win.
• Each of the 4 finalists will win a VIP prize package to 2025 NASCAR Championship Weekend™, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, at Phoenix Raceway®.
• 1 of the finalists will win a $1 million prize in a drawing televised live before the start of the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race™ on Nov. 2.

How You Can Enter

If you want a chance to win, you’ll need to start by becoming a member of the Iowa Lottery’s free VIP Club. That’s where you can enter your eligible winning and nonwinning Powerball Double Play tickets in the promotion.

One ticket equals one entry in the promotion, regardless of how many plays are on that ticket. You’ll be able to enter each ticket into the drawing of your choice.

Here are the important dates to keep in mind:

• March 20: entry period begins at 10 a.m.
• June 23: entry period ends at 9:59 a.m.
• June 24: drawing held, winners announced
• Aug. 1-3: NASCAR races at Iowa Speedway
• Oct. 26: 4 national finalists announced in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff
• Nov. 2: winner of NASCAR Powerball Playoff announced at Phoenix Raceway

Good luck, and we hope to see you at the races!

NASCAR®, NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™ and ARCA Menards Series are registered trademarks of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. Copyright© 2025 National Association for Stock Car Racing, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

NASCAR, LLC, Phoenix Speedway, LLC dba Phoenix Raceway, Iowa Speedway, LLC, Comcast Cable, LLC, Menards, Inc. are not sponsors of this promotion.

Phoenix Raceway® is a registered trademark of Phoenix Speedway, LLC. Iowa Speedway® is a registered trademark of Iowa Speedway, LLC and is used with permission.

He’s Going To Ireland: ISU Grad Wins Trip To See The Cyclones Play In Dublin!

Luke Becker (right) is shown with his fiancée, Lauren Kimball, and Tim Atterburg with Cyclone Sports Properties. 

THIS Iowa State grad is going to Ireland to see the Cyclones™ play football in Dublin!

On Tuesday, Luke Becker of Des Moines was selected as the winner of a VIP trip for two to Ireland in the Iowa Lottery’s Dublin Your Luck promotion. The promotion gave away a travel package to Dublin to see Iowa State take on Kansas State in the teams’ 2025 football season opener on Aug. 23 at Aviva Stadium.

Luke, a 2023 Iowa State graduate, claimed his prize on Friday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive. He said he knew he’d entered tickets into the promotion, but still had trouble believing it when an Iowa Lottery staffer called him on Tuesday to say that he was the winner.

Trying To Be Calm At Work

Luke said he was at work in the middle of his office when he learned the news, so he couldn’t yell or have a big reaction. He quietly let his fiancée, Lauren Kimball, and his parents know that he thought he’d won.

Luke said his parents immediately started scouring the Iowa Lottery website and sent him a screenshot showing his name as the promotion winner. That’s when it all really started to sink in.

The Tickets He Entered Were Gifts

Luke said he thinks all the “Cyclone” scratch tickets he entered in the promotion were gifts from his parents or his fiancée’s grandparents, who all wanted he and Lauren to have the chance to go to Ireland.

Luke said the outcome seems just crazy to him. And he knows that without their family members having fun while buying tickets, this wouldn’t be happening.

The lottery’s Dublin Your Luck promotion was open for entries from Dec. 2 through this past Monday, Feb. 10. The lottery held the promotion's drawing on Tuesday and one of Luke’s tickets was selected as the winner out of more than 17,100 entries.

Luke’s plus-one for the trip will be Lauren, a current Iowa State student majoring in education. Lauren said that her great-grandparents immigrated to America from Ireland, her mother studies their family history, and they celebrate their Irish ancestry.

Lauren said she’s pretty sure her parents will be purchasing tickets to the Iowa State game in Dublin so they also can be there!

What’s In The Trip Package

Luke’s travel prize package for two includes airfare, lodging, game tickets to the Iowa St.-Kansas St. football game on Aug. 23, $5,000 spending money and a merchandise pack.

He said he’s sure there will be a thousand things for them to do to pack their time in Dublin, in addition to going to the game.

“Ireland has been on our radar outside of this game for someplace we wanted to visit,” he said. “And so to now have it be a football game in addition to the days there to just tour the city and experience everything local … We’re ready to go when the plane is ready.”

For A Mid-Winter Lift, Let’s Play PAC-MAN!

To help spread smiles this winter and beyond, we’ve got a throw-back to the early days of video games! It’s a scratch ticket with a whole new way to play a classic.

Tickets in our PAC-MAN scratch game have started arriving in stores today and will be available statewide by Friday. Each ticket comes complete with winning fruit symbols, ghosts, those tasty PAC-DOTs and POWER PELLETS, and of course, PAC-MAN himself!

You can win instant prizes from $5 up to $50,000 on a PAC-MAN ticket. And nonwinning tickets in the game can become your entry into our promotion offering cash prizes along with a grand-prize package that features a PAC-MAN standing arcade game.

The PAC-MAN promotion opened this morning and the entries can be made through 9:59 a.m. on April 28.

How To Play A PAC-MAN Ticket

Because the PAC-MAN scratch game mimics the electronic version of the game, it plays differently than our other scratch tickets. You normally may like to scratch off the entire play area on a ticket, but that will confuse things in PAC-MAN.

The video above gives tips on how to play, but here is a recap:

• Start by scratching one of the 3 START positions in the maze on your ticket.
• Then scratch ONLY in the direction of each PAC-MAN symbol uncovered. If you find a fruit symbol on your path, you win the prize shown.
• Then keep scratching in the direction of the arrow by the fruit symbol.
• Follow the path for each of the START positions on your ticket.
• Uncover a ghost on your path and it’s game over for that PAC-MAN!
• If a path ends on 1 of the prize spots, you’ll win the prize amount there!
• You can win multiple times on each ticket.

How The Promotion Works & The Prizes Involved

Nonwinning tickets in the game can be entered into the PAC-MAN promotion for a chance at even more cash prizes and that sweet PAC-MAN arcade prize package!

There are 2 entry periods in the promotion and in each of the initial 2 drawings, we’ll give away 10 prizes of $15,000.

All entries not selected as winners in the initial drawings will remain eligible for the final drawing in late April for the grand prize of $25,000 plus a PAC-MAN package that includes a standing arcade game and barstool!

If you enter each promotion entry period, you could win in all 3 drawings.

Here is a breakdown of the promotion dates:

Entry Period	Drawing Date	Prize	Number of Winners
10 a.m. Feb. 4 - 9:59 a.m. March 17	March 18	$15,000	10
10 a.m. March 17 - 9:59 a.m. April 28	April 29	$15,000	10
10 a.m. Feb. 4 - 9:59 a.m. April 28	April 29	$25,000 + PAC-MAN arcade package	1

PAC-MAN™&©Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

Minnesota Timberwolves & Iowa Wolves Ticket Packages On The Line In Lottery Promotion

Premium VIP basketball packages to see the Minnesota Timberwolves and Iowa Wolves are on the line in the new lottery promotion that opened for entries today.

The Iowa Lottery’s Feeling Lucky? It’s Timberwolves Time! promotion started at 10 a.m. today, with a total of 17 ticket prize packages up for grabs.

The promotion’s initial drawings will be for courtside-seat prize packages to 7 Iowa Wolves home games in Des Moines. And the grand-prize drawing will be for 10 VIP suite-ticket packages to the Minnesota Timberwolves-Phoenix Suns NBA game on March 28 in Minneapolis.

Members of the lottery’s free VIP Club can enter the promotion with nonwinning tickets from the “Feeling Lucky?” scratch game. Players can make promotion entries until 9:59 a.m. March 10, and there will be 3 drawing dates for the ticket prize packages.

All promotion entries not selected as winners of Iowa Wolves ticket packages will remain eligible to win the Minnesota Timberwolves ticket packages in the grand-prize drawing.

Please pay close attention to the entry deadlines involved. The Iowa Wolves games earlier in the season will be closed to entries once the deadline for them has passed.

The winners of the promotion’s first 6 prize packages will be selected in drawings on Jan. 23 and Feb. 11. Each of those prize packages is valued at nearly $1,400 and includes:

• 4 front-row seats at center court for the Iowa Wolves game the player selected when entering the promotion
• 2 VIP parking passes for that game
• Complimentary food and beverages in the Courtside Club.
  AND
• 4 courtside seats in a special Lotto Zone at the Feb. 28 Iowa Wolves game
• complimentary food and beverages in the Lotto Zone
• $500 spending money.

Also on Feb. 11, the lottery will hold a special drawing for an additional prize package to the Feb. 28 Iowa Wolves game. All entries not previously selected as a winner will be eligible for the special drawing. That prize package is valued at nearly $1,000 and includes:

• 4 front-row seats at center court for the game
• 2 VIP parking passes
• Complimentary food and beverages in the Courtside Club
• $500 spending money.

Then on March 11, the lottery will hold the promotion’s grand-prize drawing for 10 ticket prize packages to the March 28 home game of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Each of those packages is valued at more than $3,800 and includes:

• 2 suite tickets to the game at the Target Center in Minneapolis with complimentary food, water and soda in the suite
• 1-night stay with parking for the night of March 28 at a downtown Minneapolis hotel adjacent to the Target Center
• Exclusive meet-and-greet with Timberwolves center Luka Garza
• $1,000 spending money
• 2 co-branded shirts.

As part of the fun, the Iowa Lottery will sponsor Timberwolves Night on Feb. 28 when the Iowa Wolves take on the Osceola Magic in Des Moines. We’ll have more details soon about how VIP Club members can get in on that event!

So Far, We’ve Seen A Lucky Dog & A Brand-New Smile. Will YOU Be A Holiday Winner?

We’ve heard some great stories from the first 10 lucky Iowans who each won a $25,000 prize in our “Cash Prizes are Coming to Town” promotion. You could be the next holiday winner – and the prizes will get even bigger as we move ahead!

We’ve been meeting the initial round of holiday winners one by one since we announced their names on Tuesday.

One of our winners took a “less is more” approach when he entered the promotion. Chad Reusch of Quimby told us he only entered 2 tickets, but that was all he needed to become a winner!

“I just figured I’m going to do it, give it a chance, and it paid off,” he said.

Chad already knows what he’ll do with his $25,000 prize: He wants to buy a rooftop tent for his overland trailer, so he can go on even better camping trips with his “right-hand gal,” Ava.

“I call her my daughter, of course. She’s my service dog, goes everywhere with me,” Reusch said.

Another one of our winners came straight from the dentist’s office to claim his $25,000 prize. Greg Paine of Duncombe had booked an appointment to replace his teeth in Cedar Rapids a while ago. Little did he know when he scheduled that, he’d be making a pit stop at lottery headquarters on the way home.

“It just kind of fell into place,” he said.

It also worked out that his first chance to show off that new smile was the moment he held a giant check with his name on it. Paine said he plans to have plenty of fun with his winnings – after he takes care of some business.

“Well first I’m going to pay the dental bill!” he said.

There is still time for you to enter to win your share of more than $1 million in prizes in our holiday promotion. Here are some key details for you to know:

• Keep entering your nonwinning tickets! Our final drawings in the promotion will take place on Jan. 9. That day, we’ll award 10 more people prizes of $25,000.
• Every ticket entered in this promotion also is eligible to win the grand prize of $250,000 that will be awarded that same day. So if you didn’t win in either $25,000 drawing, you just might get an even bigger prize!
• And for those who entered ELF InstaPlay or scratch tickets but didn’t win in either $25,000 drawing, your tickets will be rolled into a drawing exclusively for ELF tickets for a $100,000 prize!
• The entry deadline for all of these drawings is 9:59 a.m. on Jan. 8. We’ll draw the lucky names the next day, and maybe we’ll be getting in touch with YOU!

Our Latest Promotion Could Have You ‘Dublin Your Luck’

There was so much anticipation for the Ireland trip package we just gave away in the Cyclone™ Football promotion that we’ve decided to do it again!

The Dublin Your Luck promotion opened for entries this morning, with another chance on the line for you to win a trip to see Iowa State’s 2025 season opener in Ireland.

The travel package for two includes airfare, lodging, game tickets to the Iowa St.-Kansas St. football game on Aug. 23 at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, $5,000 spending money and a merchandise pack.

How To Enter

To enter the Dublin Your Luck promotion, you’ll need to join or already be a member of the Iowa Lottery’s free VIP Club. The promotion’s entry period opened this morning and runs through the morning of Feb. 10.

You can enter with nonwinning tickets in the “Cyclone™” scratch game. But please note: Any tickets previously entered in the Cyclone Football promotion that ended in late November are ineligible for this new promotion.

Entries can be made on the lottery’s website at ialottery.com or with the lottery’s mobile app.

The lottery will hold the drawing to select the Dublin Your Luck trip winner on Feb. 11.

Maybe you’ll be like Tammy Newcomb of Davenport, the Ireland trip winner selected Nov. 21 in the Cyclone Football promotion, and be on your way to Dublin next year!

The One You Look For: Our Annual Holiday Promotion Has Started TODAY!

The lottery promotion we know folks look for each year has opened for entries this morning with more than $1 million in prizes on the line!

Our annual holiday promotion, called “Cash Prizes Are Coming To Town” this year, will have two drawing dates to award 23 cash prizes totaling $1.1 million.

Players can enter the promotion with nonwinning tickets in the 7 holiday-themed scratch games and 2 holiday-themed InstaPlay games available this year in Iowa.

In the promotion’s drawings on Dec. 10 and Jan. 9, the Iowa Lottery will give away 23 cash prizes ranging from $25,000 up to $250,000. There will be an exclusive second-chance drawing for a $100,000 prize from only those ELF tickets entered into the promotion.

Eligible scratch games

• ELF
• Merry Mint Money
• Money Gift
• Shiny & Bright
• Snowfall Money
• Tree-Mendous Crossword
• Winter Winnings

Eligible InstaPlay games

• ELF
• Reindeer Riches

The ELF scratch and InstaPlay games from the Iowa Lottery are licensed by Scientific Games, LLC, and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences.

Players who join or are already members of the lottery’s free VIP Club can enter the promotion with nonwinning tickets in any of the eligible games. The promotion’s entry period runs from today through 9:59 a.m. on Jan. 8.

Details About The Prize Drawings

In the promotion’s first drawing on Dec. 10, the lottery will select the winners of 10 prizes of $25,000 from among entries made by 9:59 a.m. on Dec. 9.

The promotion’s final three drawings will all be held on Jan. 9.
• The first drawing that day will choose the winners of another 10 prizes of $25,000.
• Then the grand-prize drawing will be held to select 2 winners of $250,000.
• After that, the exclusive drawing for a $100,000 prize will be held from among the promotion’s ELF entries.

You can enter tickets on the lottery website or by using our mobile app.

Buy Lottery Tix Monday At The Iowa State Fair & Meet Luka Garza At Our Tent!

We’ll be at the Iowa State Fair on Monday with a special guest you won’t want to miss!

Monday is Veterans Day at the Iowa State Fair, and as we’ve done for the past several years, the Iowa Lottery is the Day-Of-Fair sponsor to help spread the word about the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund.

The Iowa Lottery will take over the big white exhibition tent that day along the Grand Concourse. We’ll of course have our prize wheel that players can spin after their purchase for a chance to win merchandise prizes.

And from noon-3 p.m. that day, you can meet NBA center Luka Garza at our tent! Garza, the Iowa Hawkeye basketball star who now plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves, will take photos with visitors at the Iowa Lottery tent. And we’ll have autographed photos available while supplies last.

So, why will Luka be there with us? Check our website on Monday for details about the Prize Zone promotion starting that day for the chance to win tickets in a suite at the special pre-season NBA game Oct. 11 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. You could be there to see the Philadelphia 76ers take on the Minnesota Timberwolves!

The lottery’s tent on Monday is right in front of the Fair’s Service Center, and we’ll be there from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day.

We’ll sell and cash scratch, lotto, and InstaPlay tickets and you can pay with cash or debit this year. We’ll have the games available that can be entries for our Kickoff to Kinnick™ and Cyclone™ Football promotions.

And most importantly, remember to thank the veterans that day at the Iowa State Fair.

Remember that a portion of each dollar spent on lottery tickets in Iowa goes directly to the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund to benefit our state’s veterans and their families. We’re proud to share that to date, the Iowa Lottery has raised nearly $40 million for that essential cause!

We look forward to seeing you Monday at the Iowa State Fair!

Crowd Packs Grand Concourse At The State Fair To See Live Lottery Game Show

A central Iowa man won the top prize of $500,000 in front of a huge crowd watching the live lottery game show tonight at the Iowa State Fair!

Steven “Jack” Stout of Indianola, the game show finalist, had a chance to win up to $5 million and came close to it. But he ultimately uncovered the game pieces in the show’s final round to win $500,000. He said it didn’t seem real.

Jack said that from the beginning, he could hardly believe he got a chance to be on the game show. He admitted he got pretty shaky as the show progressed and it became clear he’d win a big prize.

Jack said he doesn’t have firm plans for his winnings, but he may buy a house.

Nineteen other contestants on the game show won prizes ranging from $10,000 up to $100,000, and the Iowa Lottery also awarded three sizeable prizes to audience members watching the show on the 2024 State Fair’s opening day.

What Led Up To The Game Show

The game show was the finale of a summer-long initiative from the Iowa Lottery and the Iowa State Fair, which included the first scratch game named for the State Fair, Iowa’s largest event.

Players who didn’t win instant prizes on their Iowa State Fair scratch tickets could enter them into the lottery’s Fair Fever promotion for a chance to be one of the 20 game show contestants or win concert-ticket prize packages for the Iowa State Fair Grandstand. Lottery players made more than 67,000 entries into the promotion from mid-April through mid-July.

Here are the prizes won by the 19 other contestants on the lottery game show:

1. Craig Bergman of Cedar Rapids, $10,000	11. Jolene Murray of Cedar Rapids, $15,000
2. Michelle Cerwinske of Nashua, $25,000	12. Mary Olin of Des Moines, $100,000
3. Margo Fox of Johnston, $50,000	13. Dawn Petersen of Colfax, $10,000
4. Kristine Frye of Des Moines, $10,000	14. Timothy Roberts of Ottumwa, $15,000
5. Nicole Gulick of Des Moines, $25,000	15. Scott Stewart of Waterloo, $25,000
6. Ryan Habeger of Algona, $10,000	16. Christine Tatman of Orange City, $10,000
7. Gerald Johnson of Iowa City, $75,000	17. Rodney Tucker of Des Moines, $15,000
8. Gerald Kennicker of Dubuque, $10,000	18. Jeff Weiland of Dubuque, $25,000
9. Tamara McMahon of Council Bluffs, $20,000	19. David Wesley of Des Moines, $25,000
10. Steven Moore of Urbandale, $25,000

In addition, the Iowa Lottery gave three prizes to audience members at the show.

• Lori Wellman of West Des Moines won a $5,000 audience-member prize.
• Karen Bowder of Pocahontas won a $5,000 audience-member prize. 
• Mary Little of Brooklyn won a $50,000 audience-member prize.

These 20 Contestants Will Compete On A Live Game Show At The Iowa State Fair!

We now know the 20 contestants who will compete on a live lottery game show at the 2024 Iowa State Fair for a chance to win up to $5
million!

Iowa Lottery players made more than 67,000 entries into the “Fair Fever” promotion that will conclude with the live game show on opening day of this year’s Iowa State Fair.

Here are the 20 players who beat the odds to make it on the show:

1. Craig Bergman, Cedar Rapids	11. Jolene Murray, Cedar Rapids
2. Michelle Cerwinske, Nashua	12. Mary Olin, Des Moines
3. Margo Fox, Johnston	13. Dawn Petersen, Colfax
4. Kristine Frye, Des Moines	14. Timothy Roberts, Ottumwa
5. Nicole Gulick, Des Moines	15. Scott Stewart, Waterloo
6. Ryan Habeger, Algona	16. Steven Stout, Indianola
7. Gerald Johnson, Iowa City	17. Christine Tatman, Orange City
8. Gerald Kennicker, Dubuque	18. Rodney Tucker, Des Moines
9. Tamara McMahon, Council Bluffs	19. Jeff Weiland, Dubuque
10. Steven Moore, Urbandale	20. David Wesley, Des Moines

It’s been years since the lottery has given away a prize of this size at a live event. The image you can see below is from the last time that happened, during a live game show at the 2012 Iowa State Fair! A retired police officer won the $1 million prize at that event. This year’s push began in April, when the Iowa Lottery and the Iowa State Fair celebrated the release of the “Iowa State Fair” scratch game, the first lottery product to be named for Iowa’s largest event.

Players who didn’t win instant prizes on their Iowa State Fair scratch tickets could enter them into the lottery’s Fair Fever promotion for a chance to be one of the 20 game show contestants or win concert-ticket prize packages for the Iowa State Fair Grandstand.

The promotion’s final drawing date was yesterday, including selection of the game show contestants.

What To Expect At The Game Show

The live game show is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 on the Grand Concourse in the heart of the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Through a series of games, the contestants will gradually be eliminated until just one remains.

Each contestant will win at least $10,000 and the finalist will take home at least $500,000 with a chance to win up to $5 million.

In addition, the Iowa Lottery is finalizing plans to award several prizes to members of the audience watching the game show. Details about that will be announced soon!

Hawkeye Football Prize Packages On The Line In Kickoff to Kinnick Promotion

Ticket prize packages for coveted seats this season at all 7 Iowa™ home football games are on the line in the Kickoff to Kinnick™ promotion that opened for entries today.

Some of the prize packages are for stadium-seat tickets while others are for premium spots in the exclusive Iowa Ironmen Suite in Kinnick Stadium™. And all of the prize packages include spending money to make for a great game-day experience!

The promotion is built around the Iowa Lottery’s “Hawkeye™ Gold” scratch game. Its distinctive tickets have a bright gold background, feature a large image of the Iowa Tigerhawk™ logo, and offer players the chance to win cash prizes ranging from $5 up to $50,000.

Lottery players who don’t win an instant prize on their Hawkeye Gold scratch ticket can enter it into the Kickoff to Kinnick promotion for a chance to win Iowa football ticket prize packages for the upcoming season.

How To Enter For A Chance To Win

A total of 41 football prize packages will be given away in the promotion. Players will select the ticket prize package and game of their choice at the time they enter.

The promotion’s entry period continues through 9:59 a.m. on Oct. 16. There will be four drawing dates in the promotion. Please pay close attention to the deadlines involved: The home games earlier in the season will be closed to promotion entries once the applicable deadline has passed.

To get in on the promotion, players must join or already be members of the Iowa Lottery’s free VIP Club. Players can visit the lottery’s website at ialottery.com to enter or scan an eligible Hawkeye Gold ticket with the Iowa Lottery’s mobile app.

Here are the ticket prize packages that will be given away in the promotion:

Aug. 15 drawing date
1 prize package awarded

• This package includes 4 stadium-seat tickets, $1,000 cash and a parking pass for the Illinois St.-Iowa game on Aug. 31.

Aug. 27 drawing date
19 prize packages awarded

• 17 VIP packages with 2 tickets each in the Ironmen Suite for the Iowa St.-Iowa game on Sept. 7 with food, water and soda provided in the suite, and $100 spending money.
• 1 stadium-seat package with 4 tickets, $100 spending money and a parking pass for the Iowa St.-Iowa game on Sept. 7.
• 1 stadium-seat package with 4 tickets, $100 spending money and a parking pass for the Troy-Iowa game on Sept.14.

Sept. 26 drawing date
19 prize packages awarded

• 17 VIP packages with 2 tickets each in the Ironmen Suite for the Washington-Iowa game on Oct. 12 with food, water and soda provided in the suite, and $100 spending money.
• 1 stadium-seat package with 4 tickets, $100 spending money and a parking pass for the Washington-Iowa game on Oct. 12.
• 1 stadium-seat package with 4 tickets, $100 spending money and a parking pass for the Northwestern-Iowa game on Oct. 26.

Oct. 17 drawing date
2 prize packages awarded

• 1 stadium-seat package with 4 tickets, 4 passes to the pre-game hospitality village, 4 field passes, $100 spending money and a parking pass for the Wisconsin-Iowa game on Nov. 2.
• 1 stadium-seat package with 4 tickets, 4 passes to the pre-game hospitality village, 4 field passes, $100 spending money and a parking pass for the Nebraska-Iowa game on Nov. 29.

Cardinal & Gold: New Scratch Game Tied To ISU Football, Including Game In Ireland!

A new lottery scratch game has started arriving in stores today, and this one is ALL cardinal and gold.

You can win up to $50,000 instantly on a Cyclone™ scratch ticket or enter for a chance to win exclusive Iowa State football prize packages, including the grand prize of a trip to see ISU play in Ireland!

Tickets in the exclusive Cyclone scratch game are hitting store shelves today and will be available statewide by Friday. The new game is tied to the lottery’s Cyclone Football promotion, which opened for entries today and offers premium ticket prize packages to see Iowa State play at home, at Arrowhead, or even across the pond.

A total of 17 ticket prize packages will be given away in the promotion. They include premium seats at Jack Trice Stadium, suite tickets when ISU plays on the road at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, and a trip to see ISU play at Aviva Stadium© in Dublin.

Players will select the game of their choice when they enter a ticket into the promotion.

How To Enter

To enter the Cyclone Football promotion, you’ll need to join or already be a member of the Iowa Lottery’s free VIP Club. The promotion’s entry period opened this morning and runs through 9:59 a.m. on Nov. 20. There will be four drawing dates in the promotion for ticket prize packages.

Players can visit the lottery’s website at ialottery.com to enter the promotion or use the Iowa Lottery’s mobile app to scan an eligible ticket for entry. Please pay close attention to the entry deadlines involved. The games earlier in the season will be closed to promotion entries once the applicable deadline has passed.

Drawings & Prizes

Here are the drawing dates and the ticket prize packages that will be given away in the Cyclone Football promotion:

Aug. 15 drawing date
4 game-day prize packages awarded
Each includes: 2 premium seat tickets for the N. Dakota-Iowa St. game on Aug. 31 at Jack Trice Stadium; $200 spending money; 1 parking pass for the game; 2 pre-game field access passes; 1 Cyclone merchandise prize pack.

Sept. 19 drawing date
8 game-day prize packages awarded
Each includes: 2 private suite tickets for the Baylor-Iowa St. game on Oct. 5 at Jack Trice Stadium; complimentary food, water and soda provided in the suite; $100 spending money; 1 parking pass for the game.

Oct. 17 drawing date
4 game-day prize packages awarded
Each includes: 2 private suite tickets for the Iowa St-Kansas game on Nov. 9 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.; complimentary food, water and soda provided in the suite; $100 spending money; 1 parking pass for the game; $500 Visa gift card for lodging.

Nov. 21 drawing date
1 Ireland Cyclone Football package awarded
It includes tickets to 2 Iowa State games, one in Ames, and the other in Ireland.
       For the first game, the winner will receive 2 premium seat tickets including hospitality at the Kansas St.-Iowa St. match-up on Nov. 30 at Jack Trice Stadium and 1 parking pass for the game. The winner will be featured that day in an on-field presentation announcing that they will be going to Dublin as the winner of the travel package for ISU’s 2025 game in Ireland.
        For the second game, the winner will receive 2 game tickets for the Kansas St.-Iowa St. game on Aug. 23, 2025, in Dublin, Ireland; a travel package to Ireland including hotel stay in Dublin and airfare to Dublin from a major airport; and $5,000 spending money.

All entries not selected as a winner in one of the promotion’s initial drawings will remain eligible for the final drawing for the package that includes the Ireland Cyclone Football Experience.

Players can enter multiple tickets into the promotion but can win only one football prize package per game date.

Sneak Peak Of Live Lottery Game Show With Top Prize Of Up To $5 Million

The buzz has started, and we’re getting questions about the live lottery game show at this year’s Iowa State Fair where someone will win the top prize of up to $5 million.

The video above gives a sneak peek of the fun. We break down how the 20 game show contestants will be chosen, the prizes they’ll win (hint: at least $10,000) and your chance to be part of it.

You have until the morning of July 16 to enter the Fair Fever promotion for a shot to be on the game show! The drawing to select the contestants will be held July 18.

And then we’ll all wait for opening day of the 2024 Iowa State Fair!

Is It Fair When Some People Scan Their Promo Entries & Others Key Them In?

Here’s an interesting question from a lottery player who was worried that the way they entered a lottery promotion could impact their chance of winning. In reality, all entries into our promotions are treated equally – the system does not favor one method over another.

There are two ways that you can enter tickets into an Iowa Lottery promotion for more chances to win. The majority of people these days use the lottery’s mobile app to enter by scanning the QR code on the front of their ticket. Other folks key in the information by hand, manually entering the identifying numbers on their ticket.

Either option is perfectly fine. The same details are being recorded for the tickets involved.

Years ago, we phased out the mailing in of tickets as entries in Iowa Lottery promotions. Electronic entries are faster and more convenient – and you don’t need postage!

Each eligible entry into one of our promotions is recorded by the time and date it was entered in your VIP Club account. When you’ve successfully completed an entry, a message will appear at the top of the ticket-entry page stating whether the entry was valid.

The valid entries you’ve made in a particular promotion will appear in the ticket history for your VIP Club account.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve scanned the ticket electronically or manually keyed in the numbers. Both options have the same shot at winning!

See You This Weekend At The Iowa Speedway!

If you’re headed to the NASCAR® races in Newton this weekend, stop by and see us! The Iowa Lottery has a booth at the Iowa Speedway for all three days of racing.

We’re on the concourse near Ticket Booth 2, just across from the Newton Club! We’re selling and cashing tickets at our booth, there are merchandise prizes you can win in the wheel spin, and we’ve got staffers handing out free pull-tab tickets from time to time along the concourse.

Full details, including our booth hours, are in the video!

NASCAR®, NASCAR Cup Series Championship Weekend™ and NASCAR Cup Series™ are trademarks of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC, and used with expressed permission. Iowa Speedway® is a registered trademark of Iowa Speedway, LLC.

New Lottery Promo Offers Chance To Win Tickets With Your Crew To INDYCAR Races + Concerts

Players in 3 Iowa Lottery scratch games have a chance to win tickets in a luxury suite at this summer’s Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend in Newton!

We’re calling our newest promotion Concerts & Cars with a Crew because the winners won’t just get tickets for themselves for INDYCAR racing and concerts at Iowa Speedway. They’ll win a set of 4 tickets so they can take their favorite crew with them for an exclusive day of fun!

We’re giving away 11 sets of 4 tickets in a VIP suite for each day of the Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend at Iowa Speedway.

The promotion’s entry period opened this morning and runs through 9:59 a.m. on June 19. We’ll hold the promotion’s drawings on June 20.

First up will be 11 sets of 4 suite tickets with food and full hospitality for the INDYCAR races on July 13 plus – new this year – VIP infield access near the stage for the pre- and post-race concerts. The headline performers that day are Luke Combs and Eric Church.

Then we’ll select the winners of 11 sets of 4 suite tickets with food and full hospitality for the INDYCAR races on July 14 plus VIP infield access near the stage for the post-race concerts. Kelsea Ballerini and Post Malone will both perform after that day’s races.

You can enter the promotion with eligible tickets from any of these $20 scratch games: Lucky 7 Bonus, Lucky Numbers Gamebook and Payline. You’ll select the Race Weekend date of your choice when you make a promotion entry.

Remember that to enter the promotion, you’ll need to join or already be a member of the lottery’s free VIP Club.

Good luck in the promotion, and maybe we’ll see YOU this summer at the INDYCAR Race Weekend!

Iowa Lottery, Iowa State Fair Celebrate Years Of Partnership With Scratch Game, Promotion & Live Game Show

An internationally acclaimed Iowa event is being celebrated with a new lottery scratch game and promotion offering prizes of up to $5 million and ticket packages to some of the most sought-after performances in the state.

Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn (on the left), Iowa State Fair CEO Jeremy Parsons were joined by Iowa State Fair mascots Fairfield (the blue ribbon) and Rosetta as they made the announcement this afternoon: Tickets in the “Iowa State Fair” scratch game have begun arriving in stores today and will be available statewide by Friday! The $5 tickets feature iconic Iowa State Fair images, including a Ferris wheel, food on a stick, and livestock, all celebrating the Fair’s 2024 theme, Fair Fever.

Players who buy tickets in the Iowa State Fair scratch game have a chance to win instant prizes from $5 up to $50,000. But that’s just the start!

Nonwinning tickets in the game can be entered into the Iowa Lottery’s Fair Fever promotion that began this afternoon and will offer prizes of up to $5 million along with dozens of concert prize packages for performances at the 2024 Iowa State Fair, where the Iowa Lottery is the Grandstand sponsor.

The promotion will conclude with a live lottery game show on opening day of this year’s Iowa State Fair, where 20 contestants will compete for a total of $1 million in guaranteed prizes. The final contestant on the game show will win at least $500,000 and have a chance at a prize of up to $5 million!

The game show will be held Aug. 8 on the Fairgrounds Grand Concourse. Contestants that day will gradually be eliminated through a series of contests, with each competitor winning at least $10,000.

Going All The Way Back to 1985 …

The decades-long relationship between the Iowa State Fair and the Iowa Lottery began 39 years ago on the very first day of lottery ticket sales in Iowa. There was a kick-off celebration on Aug. 22, 1985, at the Iowa State Fair to mark the Iowa Lottery’s inaugural day.

In the mid-1990s, Iowa Lottery proceeds were dedicated for four years to funding capital improvements on the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Among the projects that received lottery funding was the extensive 1997 renovation of the Iowa State Fair Grandstand.

The Iowa Lottery has held many events at the Iowa State Fair through the years, including hosting a Powerball® drawing on the Grand Concourse in 2006. And in recent years, the Iowa Lottery has been the Day of Fair sponsor on the annual Veterans Day at the Iowa State Fair.

How To Enter The Promotion

To enter the Fair Fever promotion, Iowa Lottery players need to join or already be members of the lottery’s free VIP Club. The promotion’s entry period opens this afternoon and runs through 9:59 a.m. on July 16.

There will be two drawing dates in the promotion to select the contestants for the live game show at the Iowa State Fair along with the winners of concert-ticket prize packages for performances at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand.

The Prizes To Win

Up for grabs on the promotion’s first drawing date on June 6 are 27 ticket prize packages for each of these four Grandstand concerts:

• Thursday, Aug. 8: Lauren Daigle with special guest Blessing Offor.
• Friday, Aug. 9: Foreigner Historic Farewell Tour with special guest Melissa Etheridge.
• Saturday, Aug. 10: Jelly Roll with special guest DAX.
• Sunday, Aug. 11: Greta Van Fleet Starcatcher World Tour with special guest The Beaches.

In the promotion’s second drawing date on July 18, the game-show contestants will be selected along with the winners of 27 ticket prize packages for each these five Grandstand concerts:

• Monday, Aug. 12: Brett Young with special guest NEEDTOBREATHE.
• Tuesday, Aug. 13: Thomas Rhett.
• Wednesday, Aug. 14: Mötley Crüe with special guest Pop Evil.
• Friday, Aug. 16: The Avett Brothers with G. Love & Special Sauce.
• Saturday, Aug. 17: Ne-Yo with special guest Eric Bellinger.

There will be 4 ticket-level options available: pit standing area, club seats, Grandstand seats, and VIP spectator deck. Players will select the concert they want to attend and the level of tickets they want to win at the time they enter the promotion.

All concert prize packages will include 2 tickets to the show involved, admission tickets to the Iowa State Fair, parking and $100 spending money from the Iowa Lottery.

MONOPOLY Second-Chance Promotion From The Iowa Lottery Will Award 15 Prizes of $10,000!

Players in two Iowa Lottery games have a chance to win one of 15 cash prizes of $10,000 in a new MONOPOLY-themed promotion that opened for entries this week!

The lottery’s MONOPOLY Second-Chance Promotion opened for entries Wednesday morning. Players can enter it with eligible tickets in the MONOPOLY Game Tokens Progressive InstaPlay game or the MONOPOLY 20X scratch game. Both $5 games debuted in Iowa earlier this month.

Up for grabs in the promotion’s May 30 drawing will be 15 prizes of $10,000 each. A player can enter multiple tickets in the promotion but can win only one prize in the drawing.

To enter the promotion, Iowa Lottery players must join or already be members of the lottery’s free VIP Club. The promotion’s entry period opened this morning and runs through 9:59 a.m. on May 29.

Eligible for the promotion are any nonwinning tickets in the MONOPOLY Game Tokens Progressive InstaPlay game purchased on or after March 20; and any nonwinning MONOPOLY 20X scratch tickets. That scratch game began sales on March 5.

Good luck in the promotion, and maybe we’ll see YOUR name on the winner list from the drawing!

Player Question: Tell Me Again About Double Play?

With our new promotion that’s open for entries for race-ticket packages, we’re getting questions from players who have just heard about the Double Play® option in Powerball®. They want to know how it works and what they can win if they add the Double Play option to their Powerball ticket.

Powerball Double Play tickets are what you’ll need to enter the promotion, so now is a good time for a refresher!

The Double Play option has been part of the Powerball game for 4 months here in Iowa. It gives you the chance to play and win with the same set of numbers in two drawings rather than just one.

For an extra $1 per play, you can add Double Play to your tickets. (A Powerball play costs $2, and with the Double Play option added, a ticket costs $3.) You’ll still only have one set of numbers. But you can win twice with them – once in the regular Powerball drawing, and once in a separate Double Play drawing with a top cash prize of $10 million.

You could win a prize in the regular Powerball drawing AND the Double Play drawing on the same night!

Here’s how Double Play works: If you add Double Play to your ticket, your numbers will be good for the Powerball drawing and that same night’s Double Play drawing.

Double Play has the same odds of winning as Powerball. But while Powerball has a rolling jackpot, Double Play has a fixed top cash prize of $10 million.

In both drawings, five winning numbers are selected from the main pool of 1-69. In Powerball, the drawing balls for those first five numbers are white. In Double Play, they’re black. And in both drawings, one red Powerball is selected from a pool of 1-26.

To win the top prize in either drawing, your ticket has to match all six winning numbers. But there are eight other ways to win in each drawing, starting with a prize for matching just the Powerball alone.

The Double Play drawing is held after every Powerball drawing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

And for Power Play® fans: It’s still part of the Powerball game, and it hasn’t changed. You can add both the Power Play and Double Play options to your ticket, and if you do that, your Powerball play will cost $4.

While Power Play multiplies Powerball winnings at all prize levels except the jackpot, it does not apply to Double Play winnings.

Powerball® Double Play® Promo = Chance to win tickets to Iowa Speedway® and 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend™

Iowa Powerball® players now have a chance to win exclusive trackside prize packages to this summer’s NASCAR® races at Iowa Speedway® AND the 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend™ races at Phoenix Raceway!

The Iowa Lottery’s promotion featuring the “Summer NASCAR Race Weekend at Iowa Speedway” opened for entries this morning. Players can enter the promotion with any Powerball ticket with the Double Play option added (minimum $3 play) purchased in Iowa from Feb. 18 through the end of the promotion’s entry period on the morning of June 19.

Up for grabs on the promotion’s first drawing date on May 7 are 215 ticket prize packages for NASCAR Race Weekend at Iowa Speedway in June! Tickets to the NASCAR Cup Series™ race at Iowa Speedway are SOLD OUT, so this promotion gives you the chance to win tickets to one of the summer’s hottest events!

Players will select the race date of their choice when they enter the promotion.

The promotion’s second drawing date on June 20 offers a trip prize package to NASCAR Championship Weekend™ in November at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., as well as 20 other qualifying spots in the national NASCAR Powerball Playoff promotion that ultimately will award four additional trips to the championship race weekend and a $1 million prize.

First up in the promotion are ticket prize packages to all three NASCAR races this summer at Iowa Speedway. Some of those ticket packages are for single-day grandstand seats, some are for single-day VIP Suite Experiences, and some are for 3-day grandstand seat packages for the entire weekend of racing!

For the ARCA Menards Series™ race on June 14, the NASCAR Xfinity Series™ race on June 15, and the NASCAR Cup Series™, Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol race on June 16, we’re giving away 50 grandstand ticket packages and 15 VIP Suite packages for each day of racing. In addition, we’re giving away 20 grandstand ticket packages for all three days of races!

The winners of those prize packages will all be selected in the promotion drawings on May 7 (from entries accepted through 9:59 a.m. May 6).

Each single-day VIP Suite Experience ticket prize package to Iowa Speedway includes:

• 2 suite tickets
• complimentary food, soda and water at the suite
• a guided garage tour
• pace car ride for 2 on the track
• preferred parking at Iowa Speedway
• merchandise swag bag with branded clothing items.

Each single-day grandstand ticket prize package to Iowa Speedway includes:

• 4 grandstand admission tickets
• general parking in Iowa Speedway lots
• merchandise swag bag.

Each three-day Race Weekend grandstand ticket prize package to Iowa Speedway includes:

• 2 grandstand admission tickets for all 3 days of races
• general parking in Iowa Speedway lots
• merchandise swag bag.

Then in the promotion drawing on June 20 (from entries accepted through 9:59 a.m. June 19), we’ll select the winners of prize packages to attend the NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway. That day, we’ll select the winner of a trip for two to the 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend™!

The NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway ticket prize package includes:

• 2 grandstand admission tickets at Phoenix Raceway for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship™ race on Nov. 9 AND the NASCAR Cup Series Championship™ race on Nov. 10
• round-trip coach airfare from the winner’s closest primary airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor airport
• 3-night double-occupancy hotel stay in downtown Phoenix
• round-trip deluxe motorcoach transfer between hotel and track
• 2-day Hospitality Lounge access at the track
• 2-day Infield Experience pass at the track
• event program, scanner rental, and swag bag with branded merchandise
• $750 spending money paid in a check from the Iowa Lottery.

In addition on June 20, we’ll select the 20 Iowa Lottery qualifiers for the national NASCAR Powerball Playoff promotion that ultimately will award four trips to the 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway where one of the finalists will win $1 million. All 20 of the Iowa Lottery’s qualifiers will receive an initial $1,000 prize and have the chance to win even more!

Powerball players in 25 participating states can enter the NASCAR Powerball Playoff this spring and summer. Each state lottery will initially hold a drawing to determine its qualifiers in the national promotion. Then from among all those qualifiers across the country, 16 national semifinalists will be selected.

Each of the 16 semifinalists will win a cash prize. The number of semifinalists will continue to be whittled down until just four finalists remain. The longer a semifinalist stays in the running, the more they’ll win.

Each of the four finalists will win a VIP prize package to the 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend. During a live drawing with Powerball broadcast from Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 10, one of the four finalists will win a $1 million prize.

Here is the schedule of drawings in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff:

Prize Amount	Winners	Date	Winners Announced	Impact
$1 million + trip to Arizona	1	Nov. 10	NASCAR race Nov. 10 in Avondale, AZ	1 grand-prize winner selected
$10,000 + trip to Arizona	3	Nov. 10	NASCAR race Nov. 10 in Avondale, AZ	4 finalists attend race
$7,500	4	Oct. 17	NASCAR race Nov. 3 in Martinsville, VA	Semifinalists narrowed to 4
$5,000	4	Oct. 3	NASCAR race Oct. 13 in Concord, NC	Semifinalists narrowed to 8
$2,500	4	Sept. 12	NASCAR race Sept. 21 in Bristol, TN	Semifinalists narrowed to 12
Selection of semifinalists	16	Aug. 13	NASCAR race Sept. 1 in Darlington, SC	16 semifinalists selected

As with past Powerball promotions in Iowa, each eligible ticket entered into the NASCAR Powerball Playoff promotion with Iowa Lottery will count as one entry, regardless of the purchase price of the ticket or the number of plays on it.

Entries not selected by the Iowa Lottery in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff promotion drawings on May 7 will remain eligible for the promotion’s second drawing date on June 20. Players can win only one prize for each race day. Winners of the three-day Race Weekend Package at Iowa Speedway cannot win another grandstand admission package or a VIP Suite Experience.

NASCAR, LLC, Iowa Speedway, LLC, Phoenix Speedway, LLC, d/b/a Phoenix Raceway, Comcast Cable, LLC, and Menards, Inc., are not sponsors of this promotion.

NASCAR®, NASCAR Cup Series Championship Weekend™ and NASCAR Cup Series™ are trademarks of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC, and used with expressed permission. ARCA Menards Series™ word mark is used under license by the Automobile Racing Club of America, LLC, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC, and Menards, Inc. NASCAR Xfinity Series™ word mark is used under license by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC, and Comcast Cable, LLC. All rights reserved.

Phoenix Raceway® and its logo are registered trademarks of Phoenix Speedway, LLC, and are used with permission.

Iowa Speedway® is a registered trademark of Iowa Speedway, LLC.

SNEAK PEEK: Powerball® + NASCAR® Winning Moments Are Returning This Year To Iowa!

You bet Iowa will be part of these 2024 NASCAR® moments!

Check back with us on Tuesday, Feb. 27, for full details about how YOU can have a chance to be in on it!

And starting this Sunday (Feb. 18), save the Iowa tickets you buy for Powerball with the Double Play® option added! They’ll be what you need to get in on the action.

 

NASCAR, LLC, Phoenix Speedway, LLC d/b/a Phoenix Raceway, and NASCAR Enterprises, LLC are not sponsors of this promotion. NASCAR® is a registered trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. All trademarks are used with permission by their respective owners. All Rights Reserved.

These lucky Iowa winners just got back from a private concert by Luke Combs!

Talk about perfect timing!

Ten Iowa Lottery winners and their guests just got back from an exclusive trip to Nashville to attend a private concert by Luke Combs. You know him – the country star generating headlines for one of the most heartwarming performances at last weekend’s Grammy Awards?!

The lucky Iowans who got to see Combs in concert this week won their Nashville trip in our “Living Lucky with Luke Combs” promotion last year. The trip had been scheduled out well in advance to give winners plenty of time to get the event on their calendars.

As it turns out, they got to see Combs live on stage just days after his touching Grammy performance with Tracy Chapman!

The photos in this blog entry show our Iowa winners having an incredible getaway in Nashville. And, two of our winners from the trip have an even bigger story to tell.

Ashley Cole of Bettendorf was selected as a $10,000 prize winner as part of the concert, and Brad Scott of Marion won a private meet-and-greet with Combs.

I think we’re all having a “totally jealous” moment right now!

You may recall that we released the “Living Lucky with Luke Combs” scratch game in March of last year. And at the same time, we announced our Luke Combs promotion that offered as prizes 10 trips to Nashville for the private concert by the country star at the iconic Ryman Auditorium.

During the concert, a $10,000 prize winner was selected from Iowa and each of the other lotteries that sent players to Nashville. In addition, a grand-prize winner of $500,000 was selected at the event. A man from Texas took home that prize.

The trip winners got to tour the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, enjoy a private Taste of Nashville dinner at the top of a downtown Nashville hotel, and received custom Luke Combs swag bags.

Congratulations again to our winners! It’s been so fun to see the highlights of your trip!

Congratulations to the Million Dollar Holiday winners!

There may be snow and icy temperatures on the horizon, but a big lottery win is sure to warm you up!

It's been great fun getting to meet some of our Million Dollar Holiday winners today, including Heidi Olsen of Allison and Renee Stanbrough of Nashua. Heidi won the $500,000 top prize in Wednesday's drawing, while Renee took home a $100,000 prize in the same promotion.

Heidi found out she was a winner when she checked her email last night. She quickly called for her husband, Gabe, who thought from her alarmed tone of voice that something bad happened.

"It was really crazy, exciting and surreal," she said. "It's probably one of the best feelings ever, I would say."

As the name suggests, the Million Dollar Holiday awarded a total of $1 million in prizes, including a $500,000 top prize, two prizes of $100,000 and a $50,000 prize. You can see the full winners' list here.

The promotion was born after a $1 million prize last year went unclaimed. That unclaimed prize money was then awarded in the lottery's holiday promotion that ended this week.

 

 

 

 

Ticket Packages to Minnesota Timberwolves & Iowa Wolves Games on the Line in Lottery Promotion

Some incredible VIP ticket packages to Minnesota Timberwolves and Iowa Wolves basketball games are on the line in the Bonus Basketball promotion that started today.

The promotion’s entry period opened at 10 a.m. today. Members of the lottery’s free VIP Club can enter nonwinning tickets from the “Bonus Multiplier” scratch game into the promotion for a chance to win the pro basketball ticket packages.

When they enter the promotion, lottery players will choose the games they’d like to win tickets to attend. Nine of the prize packages in the promotion include tickets to both the Golden State Warriors vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game on March 24 in Minneapolis and an Iowa Wolves basketball game in Des Moines.

The promotion’s final prize, called the Last Shot prize package, includes only tickets to the Minnesota Timberwolves home game on March 24 in Minneapolis plus a larger amount of additional spending money.

The first 9 prize packages up for grabs in the promotion are valued at more than $2,800. Each package includes:

• 2 suite tickets to the Minnesota Timberwolves home game on March 24 at the Target Center in Minneapolis with complimentary food, water and soda in the suite;
• a 1-night stay with parking at the Loews Minneapolis Hotel adjacent to the Target Center;
• 2 courtside tickets at center court to an Iowa Wolves home basketball game in Des Moines with complimentary food, water and soda in the Courtside Club; and a parking pass at Wells Fargo Arena;
• $1,000 spending money paid via check;
• co-branded Iowa Lottery and Iowa Wolves shirts.

The final prize package awarded in the promotion is valued at more than $3,100. That Last Shot prize package includes:

• 2 suite tickets to the Minnesota Timberwolves home game on March 24 at the Target Center in Minneapolis with complimentary food, water and soda in the suite;
• a 1-night stay with parking at the Loews Minneapolis Hotel adjacent to the Target Center;
• $1,500 spending money paid via check;
• co-branded Iowa Lottery and Iowa Wolves shirts.

The Bonus Basketball entry period runs through 9:59 a.m. on March 6. The promotion will have three drawing dates on Jan. 25, Feb. 22 and March 7. Entries will not carry over from one drawing to the next, except that all entries not selected as a winner in one of the promotion’s initial drawings will remain eligible for the Last Shot drawing.

As part of the fun, the Iowa Lottery will hold a special event at the Iowa Wolves home basketball game on Feb. 23 in Des Moines. We’ll have more details soon about how VIP Club members can be part of that event!

Player Question: How Long Will Your Holiday-Themed Games Be Available?

With the long holiday weekend behind us, our holiday-themed scratch games are on the clock, as the saying goes.

A player reached out to us today to ask how long our holiday games will be available. The short answer is that we’ve got a new round of games scheduled to hit the market on Jan. 3. It may take a few days after that for all the holiday tickets to be replaced in stores by the new games, but just know that the change-out is coming!

So if you want a ticket in one of our holiday-themed games, buy it in the next few days!

You have a little more time than that to enter any nonwinning tickets in the games into our Million Dollar Holiday promotion for a chance to win prizes there. We purposefully time the ending of our holiday promotion to be a few days after the end date for our holiday games. We know that folks may want to enter tickets they just received as a gift or bought as a treat for themselves.

The deadline to enter tickets in the Million Dollar Holiday promotion is before 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8!

Do I have to check your website to see if I won a prize in a promotion?

Here’s a question that came our way at a perfect time. We just announced the latest round of winners in our Million Dollar Holiday, Countdown to Carver™ and Prize Zone promotions, and the person’s question is about notification of promotion winners.

The player wanted to know if she has to check the lottery website to see if she’s won a prize in one of our promotions. We do, of course, post promotion results on our website. But we also notify promotion winners directly through the contact information they’ve provided in their VIP Club account.

We email and call our winners, but if their account information isn’t up to date, we sometimes can’t reach them. And that can leave them in danger of missing out on their prize! So if you haven’t done so lately, please log into your VIP Club account as soon as you can so we’ll have the correct information for contacting you!

We’ll of course continue to post the results of our promotion drawings on our website, but rest assured that we contact winners directly whenever we can as well!

Dear Lottery: I Really Don’t Like Your …

A woman reached out to us this month to share that she really doesn’t like our promotions that offer ticket prize packages to events like concerts and sports events. She said she plays the lottery for the chance to win MONEY, and nothing else.

And we get it. You’ve often heard us say through the years that cash is king. So, we’ll definitely keep offering games and promotions that offer cash prizes.

But we also know that variety is the spice of life. And for that reason, we mix in games and promotions that offer other types of prizes. We’ve given away cars, trucks, motorcycles, snowmobiles and ATVs, ticket packages for concerts and sports events, and luxury items including home entertainment systems and vacations to warm-weather destinations.

Our current promotions are a perfect example of that: The Countdown to Carver™ promotion offers ticket prize packages to Iowa women’s and men’s basketball games and men’s wrestling meets, while the Million Dollar Holiday promotion offers a total of $1 million in cash prizes.

We’ll keep changing things up, knowing that different people have different tastes. If you don’t see something you like at the moment, just know we switch out our line-ups just about every month!