Garber Man wins 250-Thousand

CLIVE, Iowa — A northeast Iowa man has won a $250,000 prize on a lottery ticket he purchased in Johnson County.

Robert Hutchinson of Garber won the 15th top prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Lucky 7 Bonus” scratch game. He purchased his winning ticket at Casey’s, 1200 S. Market St. in Solon, and claimed his prize Monday at the lottery’s Cedar Rapids regional office.

Lucky 7 Bonus is a $20 scratch game that features 20 top prizes of $250,000, 76 prizes of $10,000 and overall odds of 1 in 2.88. For more information about this game and the number of prizes still available, visit ialottery.com.

About the Iowa Lottery:  Since the lottery's start in 1985, its players have won more than $6.1 billion in prizes while the lottery has raised more than $2.5 billion for state programs. Today, lottery proceeds help our state in multiple ways. They support Iowa veterans and their families through the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund. They help the families of Iowa peace officers, firefighters and corrections employees who die in the line of duty. And they provide help for a variety of significant projects through the state General Fund.