Sweet lottery win on Valentine’s Day

(NowGeorgia.com)

Just in time to buy all the flowers and candy your heart desires, a Columbus lottery player hit the Fantasy 5 jackpot. The drawing on February 14 paid out $213,618. The ticket was purchased at Citgo, 1431 Martin Luther King Blvd. 

Other big wins across the state came on Maga Millions, Diggi Games, and Keno tickets from the Georgia Lottery website and the mobile app.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $30.6 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits are used to fund specific educational programs, including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Pre-K Program. More than 2.3 million students have received HOPE, and more than 2.2 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.