KINGSTON - Cynthia Sawyer got a surprise playing her Idaho Lottery $100,000 Big Winner Scratch Game from Barney's Harvest Food in Pinehurst last Saturday while shopping for her weekly groceries.

"I scratched it as I went around the store doing my shopping," said Sawyer, a lifelong resident of the Silver Valley. "I thought I'd only won $100 and kept thinking, well, Barney's is buying me groceries today. Then I stopped to clean up the ticket a bit before I got to check out. When I did, I kept scratching and I saw all the extra zeroes."

Sawyer, an insurance agent from Kingston, became the $100,000 Big Winner's biggest winner by winning the game's top prize of $100,000. This was the game's first top prize. One more is still available.

News around the area spread pretty quickly, so much so that when she returned home from the store, she already had a message from one of her friends.

"The store called a friend of mine to check on me because they were concerned I was driving home," Sawyer said. "I was pretty excited."

Sawyer plans to use her winnings to move her retirement date closer to reality.

For their part in selling the winning ticket, Barney's will receive a bonus from the Idaho Lottery for $12,000.

At the same time Sawyer was claiming her winning ticket, Brent Stoneberg, who served in the United States Marines Corps in the 1960s, was also in the Idaho Lottery winner's lobby claiming a $100,000 prize on this year's most patriotic Scratch Game, Red, White, and Blue Cashword.

Stoneberg, a regular lottery player, bought his winning ticket at the Albertsons on 17th on the east side of Idaho Falls. Stoneberg, a lifelong resident of Idaho Falls, had no immediate plans for his winnings.