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Here are the latest lottery results from Georgia, continuously updated.
A Powerball lottery ticket worth $2 million was sold in Georgia, according to the July 24 drawing results, and another for $50,000 was sold for Saturday's drawing.
In addition to the jackpot winner, two tickets sold in Pennslyvania and Texas matched the five white balls to win $1 million each.
A government-run lottery was explicitly allowed in a 1992 constitutional amendment to Article I, Section II, Paragraph VIII of the Georgia State Constitution, approved in a referendum. The GLC was created by a separate bill in 1992 by the Georgia General Assembly , and then- governor of Georgia , Zell Miller , in the Lottery for Education Act ...
A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
DC-5, Florida's Pick 5, Georgia Five, Louisiana's Pick 5, Maryland's Pick 5, Ohio's Pick 5, Pennsylvania's Pick 5, and Virginia's Pick 5 also do not truly fit this category, as they are five-digit numbers games with "straight" and "box" wagers played like many U.S. pick-3 and pick-4 games.
In 1868, after years of illegal operation, the Louisiana State Lottery Company obtained a 25-year charter for its state lottery system. [3] The charter was passed by the legislature due to immense bribing from a criminal syndicate in New York. [3] The Louisiana Lottery Company derived 90% of its revenue from tickets sold across state borders. [3]
The Mega Millions jackpot is estimated at $148 million, with a cash value of $66.1 million. Tuesday night's lottery drawing will take place at 10 p.m. CT, April 16, 2024.