Check your sofa cushions and dig in your old jean pockets: Christmas probably came early for a lucky someone.

A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold in Decatur on Wednesday.

The lucky ticket was purchased at Publix Super Market at 3649 Flakes Mill Road and matched the game’s first five winning numbers: 4-9-21-29-64 and the Powerball was 26.

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Two additional winning tickets worth $50,000 each were sold in McDonough and Ranger. The tickets were purchased at BP at 194 Keys Ferry St. in McDonough and Owens Grocery at 2929 Highway 411 NE in Ranger.

The winners have 180 days from the draw date to claim their prizes.

If you weren’t one of the lucky winners, you can try your luck in Saturday’s $264 million jackpot, which has rolled 13 times since Oct. 31.

Winners can select the lump-sum option and receive $145 million or get the full jackpot paid in 30 yearly payments.

In other news:

Top 5 reasons you could be denied Georgia lottery winnings Trying to cash a ticket for someone else. Claiming multiple winning games in a short period of time. Failing to prove where or when you bought your winning ticket. Claiming to have purchased a winning ticket before it was delivered to the store. Failing to disclose a relationship with a store owner where tickets are sold.

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