DES MOINES - A Webster City woman won a top prize of $50,000 playing the lottery's "Super Crossword" instant-scratch game.
Ellen McBroom claimed her prize Tuesday at the Iowa Lottery's headquarters in Des Moines. She purchased her winning ticket at Kum & Go, 1803 Superior St. in Webster City.
Super Crossword is a $5 scratch game. Players win a prize by scratching the "your letters" then scratching the corresponding letters found in Puzzles 1 and 2 and the "bonus word." If players have scratched at least three complete words in Puzzle 1 or 2, they win the corresponding prize shown in the prize legend for that puzzle. If players uncover all six letters in the "bonus word" by scratching the letters that match the "your letters" they win the prize shown in the prize box.
Eight top prizes of $50,000 are still up for grabs in Super Crossword, as well as eight prizes of $5,000, 110 prizes of $500 and more than 820 prizes of $100, according to lottery officials.
McBroom joins several other big prize winners from the Webster City area, including Larry Dawson, a $9 million winner; Aenoi Phetyoumphone who won $1 million in a scratch ticket promotion and Tony Jones who won $100,000 in a scratch game.
