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Associated Press - May 18, 2007 2:14 PM ET - Cowboy legend John Wayne is helping to round up sales for the Iowa Lottery -- almost 100 years after his birth in Iowa.
The lottery has created three scratch-off tickets featuring pictures of the Duke, who appeared in more than 175 movies.
The game coincides with a number of events planned later this month in Winterset, where he born on May 26, 1907.
Those would be nice to add to the collection
awesome! and I only have to walk down the street to get some 
Do we really want to see The Duke on a Lottery Ticket, Reduced to advertising for gambling. Don't get me wrong, I've gambled before but should Wayne be on one of our vices? I guess this isn't the first time. I think it would be better if they said a portion of the money was going to help build the museum. The museum will bring in state tax revenue. btw... here's what the last lottery tickets looked like.
I couldn't resist my urge to get some of these tickets while I was in Iowa... Out of the first 10 tickets ($20) I won $9, I bought another 15 tickets $30 and will have to see how they do. We are giving our cat sitter 3 tickets but I have 12 more chances to win $10,000. Yeah, right! They can only be bought from stores in Iowa and the game is on for a limited time only... get yours today.
If your too far away from Iowa and want these for a souvenir to for whatever reason, I can go to Iowa and get more but it would be a special trip. There was a lottery booth at the fairgrounds on Sunday and you got a chance to win a ticket, a JW centennial t-shirt, and JW blankets. I got a ticket, wife got a t-shirt that only fits me. So I won twice...
I have a request for one ticket already but with gas at $3.65 a gallon here I'd have to go for more than one ticket.
The lottery officials were giving out the tickets at the parade. I won $2 and my wife won $2 as well. I bought more and will keep them unless I win big!!
The lottery officials were giving out the tickets at the parade. I won $2 and my wife won $2 as well. I bought more and will keep them unless I win big!!
That's where the wife got the free t-shirt that fits me...
I scratched off the others I bought on the way home and won another $13 so I've won a total of $22. I do have 25 non-winning tickets. If anyone is interested, I may mail out a few of them so you can have them in a collection. I will keep at least two of each type so I'll give away about 19 of them. Now I have tickets from Kansas, Rhode Island and Iowa.
Actually, they did contribute to the new John Wayne Museum. The Iowa Lottery could not do so directly due to state law, but Scientific Games, who did the actual licensing of Wayne's name for the Scratch game, gave a check for over $2,400 (a percentage of the licensing fee) to the museum at the Groundbreaking ceremony on May 26th (Wayne's 100th birthday, of course!)
There were 600,000 scratch tickets produced. The tickets went on sale May 14th; they were all gone by last weekend, the fastest sell-out in Iowa Lottery history. Personally, I think it's the game's subject matter!
Wayne Davis
Birthplace of John Wayne
http://www.johnwaynebirthplace.org
I know a place close to us that the manager said she still has the tickets and hasn't put them out because she doesn't have room. So there are more tickets. The owner is just stubborn and was nasty. We were buying tickets all weekend in Des Moines. 600,000 tickets at $2 each, they took in over 1.2 million dollars. And all they gave was $2,400. Now I wish I never bought any. That's downright deplorable. Iowa should be ashamed of themselves.
Have to agree with Dakotasurfer's first post about the suitability of having John Wayne splattered on a lottery ticket just to increase sales.
Whilst donations to good causes are all well & good the company making them do it for one purpose alone. Make money for them!!
Mike
They already have the first $10,000 Winner:
ATLANTIC WOMAN WINS $10,000
April Zarbano Wins Top Prize in Scratch Game
A Cass County woman rode into the sunset with a large lottery prize! April Zarbano of Atlantic won $10,000 playing "The Duke" instant-scratch game. She purchased the winning ticket at Kum & Go, 701 Poplar St. in Atlantic. [about an hour and a quarter west of Winterset.]
Zarbano claimed her prize at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Council Bluffs. "I was sitting right outside the door of Kum & Go [when I scratched the winning ticket]," she said. "I started crying and shaking and the [clerk] came running out and said, 'How much did you win?'"
Zarbano said she called her husband right away to tell him the good news. As it turns out, it was his birthday that day!
She said she's pretty sure how they'll use her prize money. "We've been looking for a house, so I believe we're going to use most of it for a down payment," she said.
The Duke is a $2 scratch game commemorating the 100th birthday of legendary screen actor and Iowa native John Wayne. If a player matches any of "their numbers" to a "winning number," they win the prize shown for that number. If they find a "horseshoe" symbol, they win that prize instantly. The overall odds of winning in the game are approximately 1 in 4.
Zarbano claimed the first top prize in the game, which went on sale beginning May 14. The game is already nearly sold out. Nine top prizes of $10,000 are still up for grabs in the game as well as more than 250 prizes of $100.
Since the Iowa Lottery's inception in 1985, more than $2 billion has been awarded in prizes and more than $1 billion has been raised for state programs.
For those who are concerned about how Iowa Lottery proceeds are spent:
Lottery profits have helped the state in a variety of ways through the years. When legislation authorizing the Iowa Lottery was signed into law in 1985, lottery profits were earmarked for the Iowa Plan, a long-term economic development program.
In 1991, lottery profits were designated for environmental and cultural programs. But after one year, all lottery proceeds were directed to the state general fund. Most lottery revenues have continued to go to the general fund since that time. More than 60 percent of the money in the general fund goes to Iowa's public K-12 schools and higher education. Other programs that receive money from the general fund include justice programs, health and human services and agricultural programs.
The Lottery also provides a portion of its revenues to the state Gambling Treatment Program, which administers the 1-800-BETSOFF helpline for those concerned about program gambling. Through the years, the lottery has provided more than $12 million in funding to the gambling treatment program.
Lottery revenues also were used to secure financing for the Vision Iowa program. Vision Iowa was created in 2000 to provide funding for tourism attractions and school repairs in the state. Bonds for the program were issued with direct funding provided by state revenues from racetracks and casinos, and lottery revenues used as a backup over the 20-year payback period of the bonds.
The Lottery sells tickets in three general categories: instant-scratch, pull-tab and lotto games. Lottery products are sold at more than 2,600 retail locations in Iowa.
The Iowa Lottery is a state-run program and *ALL* lottery profits go into helping fund state programs; they are not getting rich or lining their pockets. Because of their situation, the Lottery could not donate to the new Museum directly, but donated 10% of the licensing fee (so the licensing fee was $24,000).
Wayne Davis
Birthplace of John Wayne
http://www.johnwaynebirthplace.org
The Iowa Lottery is a state-run program and *ALL* lottery profits go into helping fund state programs; they are not getting rich or lining their pockets. Because of their situation, the Lottery could not donate to the new Museum directly, but donated 10% of the licensing fee (so the licensing fee was $24,000).
Come on Wayne be realistic... putting the money into the general fund is just another way for the state legislature to use it on pet projects pushed through by greedy or long-term politicians. It's just as corrupt a group as the US Congress when they slip pet projects into bills that are loaded with amendments to fund these projects. South Dakota, where I'm from has video lottery, and early on they made sure 50% of the profits went towards education. It funded computers for all SD schools and it was made to do some good.
Duke tickets in sales alone brought in 1.2 million less any pay outs and they gave only $2,400. That comes to 2 tenths of 1% of the gross sales. That's like taking a big Mrs. Fields cookie and giving Duke a small crumb. It should never have been allowed.
Well, regardless of anyones' feelings about whether or not John Wayne should have been on lottery tickets, that was the Wayne family's decision; the Birthplace had nothing to do with that. They did not have to contribute $2,400 to the new Museum, but they did. And the news releases and publicity the Iowa Lottery sent out helped to spread the word about the Centennial Celebration, the Birthplace and the new Museum.
And some of the Vision Iowa funds that the lottery revenues make possible will almost certainly be awarded to the new Museum to help get that built.
Wayne Davis
Birthplace of John Wayne
http://www.johnwaynebirthplace.org
Some good points you raise, Wayne.
Another thing to consider is that John Wayne enjoyed a good game of poker, and I guess that involved a little gambling .
How much money has been donated towards the museum, and how far is there to go?
Chester 
I wish they would get started on the Walk of Fame... we have two we want to buy while the irons hot.
The project is 5.5 million. Hopefully they got some recently but what I was told is they have around a ¼ million so far. I hope it's much higher by now.
At least some money went to the Birthplace so it cant all be bad.
Mike
