Georgia Lottery: Fantasy 5, Mega Millions and Lotto South

The Georgia Lottery was created in November 1992 by the people of Georgia to enhance education funding. The Lottery for Education Act created the Georgia Lottery Corporation (GLC) to oversee and operate the lottery. Rebecca Paul was hired in February 1993 as president of the GLC, and four months later, on June 29, the Georgia Lottery was launched. First-week sales of more than 52 million tickets set a new opening-week lottery sales record of $7.80 per capita.

Within five months, the Lottery met its first-year sales goal of $463 million, and ended its first full year in operation with $1.1 billion in total sales. The Lottery's first-year per capita sales of $164.81 set a new national record, surpassing the previous mark of $128 set by Florida in 1988, effectively making the Georgia Lottery the most successful start-up state lottery ever.

That success enabled the Georgia Lottery in its inaugural year to return $362 million to the state of Georgia for education -- more than double the original estimate. In its second year, the Georgia Lottery recorded $1.4 billion in total sales, with more than $500 million going to education.

The Georgia Lottery continued to break industry trends by increasing sales for seven consecutive years. More importantly, to date, the GLC has transferred more than $6.8 billion to the students of Georgia. This money has allowed more than 800,000 students to go to college in Georgia on HOPE Scholarships, more than 635,000 four-year olds to begin their education early in Pre-K, and has enhanced educational facilities with advanced technology preparing our students for the future. While the GLC's function is to raise funds for education projects, the revenue generated is allocated and distributed to these projects by the Governor and the General Assembly.

Georgia Lottery Corporation proceeds are used to supplement, not supplant, traditional educational funding. According to a recent report issued by the State Auditor, general fund appropriations to education have increased since the Lottery's inception. Therefore, total state spending on education has increased significantly since the Lottery was started.

For Fantasy 5, you select 5 numbers from 39. All five numbers are required to win first prize. There are 3 levels of prizes.

Click here to go to the Georgia Lottery home page. The Georgia Lottery home page will open in a new window, so when you are finished, just close it by clicking on the x in its upper right corner.

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