Georgia State Lottery
The Georgia Lottery provides a large variety of lotto type games to play for the chance to win. Proceeds from the lottery are reserved for educational programs within the state.
Informational links are contained below to allow easy access to information and resources for finding the winners, winning numbers, official winner results, payouts, winning payout amounts, GA lottery games, rules, how to play and more. The lottery has many games for people to play including new instant Scratch & Win games such as 'Cash in Hand' and 'Maximum Green' which has over $275 million in total cash prizes. Other popular online games include CASH 3, CASH 4, Mega Millions, Fantasy 5 and Sit & Win games.
The Georgia Lottery became a reality in 1992 when the Georgia Lottery for Education Act was passed. Ticket sales for the very first lottery in GA began in June 1993. CASH 3 was the state's first online lottery game and was introduced in August, 1993. Since these beginning several different lottery games, online and offline have been added. One of the lottery's main operating objectives is to raise money and to fund educational directives in the state. http://georgialottery.com/stc/aboutus/timeline.jsp
Georgia Lottery Background
The Georgia Lottery has two official websites, www.galottery.com and www.georgialottery.com. You can visit these sites for information on the many games they have available to play, check out your numbers to see if you won, see winners, official results and winning numbers for each game. You can also see payout amounts by game and past winnings and payout amounts.
The main goal and operating objective is to provide funds to educational programs from the operating profits. The proceeds from the lottery ticket sales have been used to fund various such as:
- the voluntary prekindergarten program
- tuition grants, scholarships and loans to college students
- teachers seeking advanced degrees in certain areas of study
- technology grants for teacher training efforts for advanced technology. http://georgialottery.com/stc/aboutus/proceedsToEducation.jsp
- Hope grants for students with more than a 3.0 average in high school. Provides students with Georgia students with tuition, fees, and a book allowance for attendance at Georgia's public colleges, universities or technical colleges.http://www.galottery.com/education
Favorite Georgia Lottery Games
Sit & Win Games
Mega Millions
Cash 3
Cash 4
Fantasy 5
Win for Life
Keno
Kevin and the Red Hot Millions
The commercial for the Georgia Lottery features Kevin the goat. Kevin helps by lighting candles, starting the fireplace and other *hot* activities since he ate the Red Hot Millions Lottery ticket.
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Fast Facts
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Headquarters
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Operated by
Georgia Lottery Corporation
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Fact:
The GA Lottery has raised more than $11 Billion for educational programs since its beginning.
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Fact:
Proceeds help fund the HOPE Scholarship
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Games
Include Lotto Georgia, Fantasy 5, Mega Millions
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Fact:
State education receives a portion of every GA lottery ticket sold
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Fact:
As of 2009, they were the only lottery growth in profits for eleven consecutive years
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In-state player information hotline
800-GA-LUCKY
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Out of state hotline
770-GA-LUCKY
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Fact:
CASH 3 was the state's first online lottery game.
