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Woman tries to cash in $3,000 lottery ticket, actually gets $30,000

By Ben Hooper
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Aug. 18 (UPI) -- An Iowa woman's attempt to cash in a winning lottery ticket for $3,000 failed for an unexpected reason -- her prize was actually $30,000.

Allison Pope, 23, of Mason City, said she scratched off her Bonus Crossword ticket from the Iowa State Lottery and was excited to see that she had won some money.

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"I went home and I was scratching off the ticket and I saw that I had nine words crossed off so I realized I won $3,000 and I was super excited," Pope said.

Pope said she ran into an unexpected hiccup, however, when she tried to have her winnings verified at a local lottery office. She said the woman at the counter told her that the ticket was worth 10 times the $3,000 prize she had been expecting.

"When the lady handed the ticket back to me, I was shaking," Pope said. "She was like, 'Are you going to pass out?'"

Pope's ticket was the 40th of 91 available $30,000 top prizes in the Bonus Crossword game.

"I've always had big dreams of getting a big winner like this," she said.

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