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Ticket To Austin: How You Can Have A Chance To ‘Fly With Cy’

Last month, we announced the Iowa Ironmen Suite promotion giving folks the chance to win football prize packages to two big rivalry games for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Today, the focus turns to Iowa State, and specifically, the chance to win an exclusive VIP trip to Austin for the Iowa State -Texas football game.

The Fly with Cy promotion has started today! Members of our free VIP Club can enter the promotion with nonwinning tickets in the “Hit It Big!” scratch game. We’ll draw for the Fly with Cy winners on Sept. 15.

Fifty winners and their guests will get to go on a private chartered flight that leaves Des Moines on Oct. 14 and returns from Austin on Oct. 16. Included in the trip package are:

• a 2-night hotel stay for two at the Hilton Garden Inn in the Austin University Capitol District,
• a reception at the hotel on the evening of Oct. 14,
• 2 tickets to the Iowa State - Texas football game on Oct. 15 at DKR Texas Memorial Stadium,
• Hotel and stadium transfers,
• Merchandise swag bag.

Each trip package is valued at nearly $7,300!

Entries can be made into the promotion until just before 10 a.m. on Sept. 13. We’ll post the winners’ names as soon as we have the details available after the drawing on Sept. 15.

Last year, Fly with Cy winners and their guests had a ball going to an ISU game in Las Vegas! We look forward to the fun this year in Austin.

(And for Hawkeye fans, remember that the entry period in the Iowa Ironmen Suite promotion runs through 8:59 a.m. on Aug. 17. You’ve still got time to enter!)

Team Spirit At The Lottery

Raise your hand if you’re wearing the colors of your favorite football team today.

It’s football season and you know what that means – tailgating! Employees at lottery headquarters held a potluck tailgate luncheon Thursday, and team spirit was definitely on display with many employees wearing the colors of their favorite football team.

Good luck to your team this weekend – whoever that may be!

It's Tailgate Mania!

It's almost college football season, and you know what that means - tailgating! We're turning one of sports fans' greatest pastimes into a smokin' promotion this year, called "Great State Tailgate."

Today we launched a brand new $2 scratch ticket, dubbed (appropriately) "Great State Tailgate." It has 13 top prizes of $10,000; but if you end up with a few non-winners, hang onto them!

We've partnered with three of Iowa's biggest schools - University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University - to bring you a second-chance promotion with a prize to set you up for the ultimate tailgating experience.

The grand prize in the promotion is a customizable, towable tailgate fully equipped with:

⇒ 42-inch LCD HDTV with a cable receiver and HD auto satellite antennae
⇒ name brand theater system with mp3 connectability
⇒ hitch-mounted tailgating gas grill and 54-qt. cooler on full slide system
⇒ 1000W portable generator
⇒ 30 AMP electrical panel box and much more!

The winner of the grand prize tailgate will also be able to customize the artwork on the outside of it to fit his/her specifications! So, if you're the big winner and you want it tricked out in your favorite team's colors, you can do that! Want a tailgate covered with pics of puppies and kittens? Feel free! It would all be up to you!

Along with the grand prize, we are also giving away five cash prizes of $1,000.

As a reminder, you'll need to sign up for our FREE VIP Club to enter. You have until noon on Tuesday, Dec. 6 to enter, and we'll hold a drawing on Dec. 8 to determine the winners.

Want to see the tailgate in person before we give it away? We're heading out to 11 home football games at Iowa, Northern Iowa and Iowa State give everyone a chance to check out what they could win! Visit our promotions page to see the dates of the games where we'll be.

And as a bonus, players can bring any Iowa Lottery ticket with them to the games for a chance to play our Wheel Spin game and win some cool Lottery and university merchandise. We'll see you there!