Woman needed time to process huge lottery win. ‘No, no, there’s no way’
An Iowa woman couldn’t believe how much she won on a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Leigh Solis, 45, bought a Feeling Lucky? scratch-off ticket at a store in Ames where she stopped to get a drink, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the Iowa Lottery.
Little did she know, she would win the $10 game’s sixth and final top prize.
“I saw $150,000, and it was like, ‘No, no, there’s no way,’” she told lottery officials. “We scanned it with the app and it came back $150,000. Then we had to scan it with another phone because I didn’t believe it. We were yelling and just in shock.”
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Solis said at first she thought the prize was much smaller.
“I didn’t think it was $150,000 at all,” she said. “$150 — but then all the zeros.”
Solis said she and her husband plan to pay off vehicles and save the rest.
Ames is about a 40-mile drive north from Des Moines.
This story was originally published September 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM with the headline "Woman needed time to process huge lottery win. ‘No, no, there’s no way’."
