Lottery winner Joseph Houck. “I screamed and yelled and jumped around,” he said after winning.(Submitted photo/Oregon Lottery)

A Redmond man recently took home $25,000 from an Oregon Lottery scratch game.

Three of the four tickets carpenter Joseph Houck bought at Logan’s Market were winners, but a $3 Sky High Crossword with a $25,000 payoff particularly caught his attention, he said in a news release.

“I played the ticket and started counting words. At first I thought I had seven words for $50, then eight for $100,” Houck said. “That’s when I decided to scan it and the clerk couldn’t believe it. It was worth $25,000! I screamed and yelled and jumped around.”

Houck signed the ticket and took it to several other stores to make sure it was the big winner. He then went to Salem to claim the prize. He said he plans to buy a new truck and take a trip to the California redwoods with the money.

Two more of the Sky High Crossword jackpot tickets are still available, according to the lottery. More than $28.9 million in Oregon Lottery proceeds have gone to economic development, parks, education and watershed enhancement in the 2015-17 biennium in Deschutes County.