WELL, STILL FAST AS EVER ON THAT SCOOTER. IT HAS BEEN ONE HECK OF A SUMMER FOR AN EASTERN IOWA MAN. LET’S EXPLAIN. 31 YEAR OLD NICK MILLER, THE GUY YOU SEE THERE, HE GOT ENGAGED JUNE 23RD, THE NEXT DAY, BOUGHT A LOTTERY TICKET THAT WOUND UP WINNING HIM NEARLY. $400,000. HE PICKED UP HIS BIG CHECK ON MONDAY, THE IOWA LOTTERY SAYS WHEN HE STOPPED FOR COFFEE AND SOME BREAKFAST PIZZA AT A CASEY’S IN CASCADE, HE BOUGHT A TICKET AS AN IOWAN DOES RIGHT. IT WAS 30 BUCKS THAT GAMBLE. IT PAID OFF. HE SAYS THE 400 K WILL GO TO HIS WEDDIN
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Best weekend ever? Man wins $400K lottery prize the day after getting engaged
Updated: 7:53 PM EDT Jul 5, 2023
Nick Miller won’t soon forget the summer of 2023. The 31-year-old from a small town in Iowa got engaged on June 23. Hours later, the next morning, he stopped for coffee and a slice of breakfast pizza at a store, where he decided to try his luck at the Super 7s Progressive lottery game, which had climbed to nearly $400,000. The $30 risk paid off in the game that had been growing since April. “I went back to my truck and the first thing I did was look down to the progressive jackpot game and started matching my winning numbers,” Miller said in a news release from the Iowa Lottery. “And I had one and then two and then I saw the third one, so I had to do a double-take and check them again. Eventually, I checked them on my mobile app, and sure enough, it was the winner.” Miller’s prize of $390,191 was one of three big wins that weekend in Iowa. One woman won $2 million in the June 24 Powerball drawing and a ticket sold in Iowa won $1 million in the June 23 Mega Millions drawing. That prize has not yet been claimed. Miller farms with his family and works at Rail-Way Inc., a company that produces railroad crossings, according to the release. He said the lottery prize will help him and his fiancee, Lauren Timmerman, start their life together.”There is the wedding and a house to start doing some work on,” he said in the release. “It will definitely go a long way towards both of those.”
Nick Miller won’t soon forget the summer of 2023.
The 31-year-old from a small town in Iowa got engaged on June 23. Hours later, the next morning, he stopped for coffee and a slice of breakfast pizza at a store, where he decided to try his luck at the Super 7s Progressive lottery game, which had climbed to nearly $400,000.
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The $30 risk paid off in the game that had been growing since April.
“I went back to my truck and the first thing I did was look down to the progressive jackpot game and started matching my winning numbers,” Miller said in a news release from the Iowa Lottery. “And I had one and then two and then I saw the third one, so I had to do a double-take and check them again. Eventually, I checked them on my mobile app, and sure enough, it was the winner.”
Miller’s prize of $390,191 was one of three big wins that weekend in Iowa.
One woman won $2 million in the June 24 Powerball drawing and a ticket sold in Iowa won $1 million in the June 23 Mega Millions drawing. That prize has not yet been claimed.
Miller farms with his family and works at Rail-Way Inc., a company that produces railroad crossings, according to the release. He said the lottery prize will help him and his fiancee, Lauren Timmerman, start their life together.
“There is the wedding and a house to start doing some work on,” he said in the release. “It will definitely go a long way towards both of those.”
