Two Georgia residents were a quarter million dollars richer as of Monday morning.
Montez Daughtery, of Atlanta, and Frank Harper, of Union City, matched all five winning numbers of their Fantasty 5 tickets from the Sept. 6 Georgia Lottery drawing. They collected their prizes, $260,843 each, Monday at Georgia Lottery headquarters in Atlanta.
Daugherty bought her winning ticket at the Shannon Beverage Warehouse Outlet, at 6900 Londonderry Way in Union City.
DJ’s Grocery II, at 504 Main St. in Palmetto, sold Harper his winning Quik Pik ticket.
Daugherty and Harper each took home nice cash, but this Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot drawing could leave a Georgia resident a millionaire, 200 times over. The jackpot for the game is set at $245 million.
But risk-takers shouldn’t get their hopes up, according to figures posted on the Georgia Lottery website. The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 175 million.
Five things that are more likely than winning the lottery
1. Becoming president (The Daily Beast)
It’s more than 17 times more likely you’ll be sworn in as Commander-in-Chief than win big in this Wednesday’s Powerball drawing.
2. Picking a perfect NCAA bracket (Deseret News)
It’s a safer bet to best all your friends in March Madness. The odds are 13 million to one.
3. Winning an Olympic gold medal (Deseret News)
The odds of taking home the gold are 266 times more likely than taking home the jackpot.
4. Dating a supermodel (Deseret News)
Relatively speaking, the odds are in your favor. The odds are 88,000 to one, so you’re two thousand times more likely to be dating a supermodel.
5. Finding a four-leaf clover (Deseret News)
The odds of finding a four-leaf clover are 10,000 to one. That makes you 176,000 times more likely to pluck one on your first try.
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