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POLL: How Often Do You Play the Georgia Lottery?
Since its inception, the Georgia Lottery has had sales exceeding $45 billion. Have your purchases been a part of that total?
The odds are staggering. Your chances of winning Mega Millions are 1 in 258,890,850. The chances of winning Powerball are 1 in 175,223,510. By comparison, the odds for the popular Fantasy 5 game (1 in 575,757) look downright encouraging.
Despite those odds, millions of people have played the Georgia Lottery. Since its inception in 1992, ticket sales have exceeded $45 billion of which more than $14.8 billion has been used to fund education programs including the HOPE scholarship program.
Are you a Georgia Lottery player? How often do you play? Let us know in the comments or vote in our online poll. Note: This is not a scientific poll. It is for entertainment purposes only.
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