A Linn County man who won $100,000 said he wasted little time in putting his winnings to work.
“We’ve already got the master bath torn apart,” Bradley Greene said on Tuesday as he claimed his prize at the lottery’s Cedar Rapids regional office. “We just bought this house last September. It needs a little updating, so this will definitely help out.”
Greene, 46, of Mount Vernon, won the fifth top prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Holiday 50X The Money” scratch game. He purchased his winning ticket last month at Casey’s, 3625 Edgewood Road SW in Cedar Rapids.
Greene, who works for General Mills, scratched the ticket in the parking lot when he got to work. When he uncovered a matching number on his ticket, he carefully scratched to reveal the prize amount.
“I just kept seeing zeroes,” he said with a laugh. “I knew it was more than $10. I couldn’t believe it.”
He popped out of his vehicle and ran across the parking lot to the truck of a coworker to tell him about the win.
“He didn’t believe me, and I looked at it five different times and I couldn’t believe it either,” Greene said. “He was scratching a Crossword at the time. He had scanned his (ticket) because he had won. So he had the (mobile) app up and then he scanned mine and we both knew.”
Holiday 50X The Money is a $10 scratch game. It features six top prizes of $100,000 and overall odds of 1 in 2.86.