winner stories

Lucinda Kirby

Game Name: WILD CHERRY CROSSWORD
Purchased City: New Castle
Date Won: 7/12/2011
Amount Won: $50,000

Scratch-off shock: New Castle woman wins $50,000

For Lucinda Kirby of New Castle, having ten complete words on a Hoosier Lottery Wild Cherry Crossword Tripler Scratch-off resulted in two awesome words:  BIG and WIN.  Kirby won $50,000 on the Hoosier Lottery Scratch-off this week. As she claimed her prize at Hoosier Lottery Headquarters in Indianapolis, Kirby used two more words to describe her big win:  “exciting” and “scary.”  The Henry County woman could have accurately used the word “shocked” as well.    Until she presented her ticket to Lottery officials, Kirby assumed she had only won around $1,000.  She was excited and a little bit overwhelmed to realize she had won $50,000.  Read more of Lucinda's story here.