BOISE, Idaho ÔÇô Even second-time, top prize Lottery winner Cindie Sawyer couldn't believe what she was seeing after uncovering the final top prize of $250,000 on the Idaho Lottery's 25^th Anniversary Scratch Game^TM.

About three weeks before the end of 2014, Sawyer visited the Beamis-Hico convenience store in Wallace on her way to work and bought an Idaho Lottery 25^th Anniversary Scratch ticket. She won $25 on that ticket. She returned to the store and bought the next ticket with her winnings.

"When I scratched the next ticket and saw that I won $250,000 I just couldn't believe it. I took the ticket to work and looked at it under a magnifying glass just to make sure," confessed Sawyer. "Then I called my husband and told him. Winning once was exciting, but to do it twice? Unbelievable."

Sawyer won $100,000 three-and-a-half years ago on the Scratch game $100,000 Big Winner. Beamis-Hico in Wallace, where she purchased this winning ticket, previously sold a $250,000 winning ticket to Bruce Baraby in October 2009. This makes Beamis-Hico in the Silver Valley one of the luckiest stores to sell top prize winning Scratch tickets in Idaho.

After winning for the second time in three-and-a-half years, Sawyer plans to invest her winnings and continue working at her job. For their part in Sawyer's win, Beamis-Hico receives a bonus from the Idaho Lottery of $20,000.

With the final top prize claimed by Sawyer, the 25^th Anniversary game has officially ended. Players participating in the game's second chance draw have until Friday, January 09, 2015 at 11:55 pm MT to enter any non-winning 25^th AnniversaryScratch Games for the second chance prize of $25,000. The drawing for the second chance prize will take place on Wednesday, January 15, 2015 with the winner being posted to the Lottery's website by 3 pm MT.

PHOTO OF SAWYER IS AVAILABLE.

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