CLIVE, Iowa — A southwest Iowa man woke up his wife to tell her he’d won a big Powerball prize, but neither of them realized it was $100,000. “She was still sleeping,”

Cody Marsh

Cody Marsh said he woke his wife Kylee up, and told her he thought he had won $20,000.” He says “She thought I was joking with her. It took us an hour to realize we’d won $100,000.” Marsh, 37, of Red Oak, matched four of five white balls and the Powerball in Monday’s drawing. He was one number away from winning that night’s $352.5 million jackpot.

Marsh bought his winning easy-pick ticket at Casey’s, 201 N. Broadway in Red Oak. He said he buys a Powerball ticket every now and then, but only when the jackpot is elevated. “The guy in front of me was buying some scratch-off tickets and reminded me nobody won the Powerball this last round,” Marsh said. “I ended up buying another two tickets.”

He checked his numbers the morning after the drawing. The more numbers he matched, the more excited he became. But it wasn’t until later, when he scanned the ticket with the Iowa Lottery mobile app, that he realized the size of his prize. “I was shaking. I was like, ‘Holy cow!'” he said. “I’ve got a few home projects that I’ve been working on saving up some money for and this will help out quite a bit. It’ll be really nice.”

Marsh’s initial $50,000 prize was doubled because he opted for the $1 Power Play^® add-on, which multiples non-jackpot prize amounts by up to 10 times. He claimed his prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Clive.

The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing were 8-33-55-59-62 and Powerball 18. The Power Play was 2.

Update 4/21/22: The Powerball jackpot remains unclaimed. The top prize for the next drawing Saturday, April 23^rd, is $400-million.