CLIVE, Iowa — Officials with the Iowa Lottery announced Wednesday, that an Oklahoma man took a business trip to southwest Iowa, and won a $50,000 lottery prize. Jason Martin, of Mooreland, OK, said “It doesn’t even sound real.” He claimed his prize at the lottery headquarters Tuesday, in Clive. Martin said of his winning, “I don’t know if it’s set in yet. It will, I guess, when I go to the bank.”

The 38-year-old Martin, who works for a shoe retailer headquartered in Shenandoah, won the sixth top prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Roll The Dice” scratch game. Martin said he and some colleagues stopped at Casey’s in Shenandoah, to buy some lottery tickets. He bought four tickets in the $5 game and checked them on the store’s self-checker.

Jason Martin

As soon as he realized he won, he called a coworker who lives in town and asked to keep the ticket in his safe until he could make the 2-hour trip to central Iowa to claim his prize. “It’ll make a difference for sure,” Martin said. “We’re able to pay some bills and take some monthly obligations away, and that’s what we’re going to do.” Martin said that news of his win traveled fast around Shenandoah. “I’ve had my bald head rubbed like 15 times for luck since,” he said. “Kind of weird, but cool.”

Roll The Dice is a $5 scratch game that features seven top prizes of $50,000 and overall odds of 1 in 3.44.