Most lotteries, including Georgia's, offered both games beginning January 31, 2010.Ĭurrent draw games In-house draw games Instant games (In October 2009, an agreement was reached between Mega Millions and the Powerball group allowing Mega Millions and Powerball tickets to be available, simultaneously, by each US lottery. Several days after Georgia began selling The Big Game tickets, it was forced to leave the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which continues to administer Powerball. In the mid-1990s, Georgia, then offering Powerball for the first time, joined The Big Game (now Mega Millions) when it began in 1996. The original in-house weekly jackpot game, Lotto Georgia, merged with two similar games in 2001 to become Lotto South, in an attempt to create larger jackpots. Rebecca Paul, who began the Florida Lottery, then ran the Georgia Lottery for its first decade, before leaving to launch Tennessee Lottery in 2004. 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 ( OCGA 50-27).

The education money funds the HOPE Scholarship, and has become a successful model for other lotteries, including the South Carolina Education Lottery.Ī 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. By law, half of the money goes to prizes, one-third to education, and the remainder to operating and marketing the lottery. Headquartered in Atlanta, the lottery takes in over US$1 billion yearly.

The Georgia Lottery Corporation, known as the Georgia Lottery, is overseen by the government of Georgia, United States.

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