ATLANTA – Omega Ashley of Cordele has won an extraordinary prize from the Georgia Lottery. Ashley, 31, played the instant game $10 Million Cash Spectacular, winning a $1 million prize.
“I just bought a ticket and scratched it,” he said. “I had a lucky feeling, and I told myself to buy the ticket.”
Ashley, who says he plays “every blue moon,” scratched his lucky ticket while in the store.
“I was calm, but I feel wonderful,” he said. “I plan to buy a big house.”
A fork lift driver, Ashley and his wife, Clair, are ecstatic over the windfall.
Discount Tobacco, 902 W. 16th St. in Cordele, sold the winning ticket.
The Georgia Lottery instant game $10 Million Cash Spectacular is loaded with cash prizes, including top prizes of $10 million.
Players can enter non-winning tickets into the $10 Million Cash Spectacular Extra Chance Promotion for a second chance to win $10 million. For more information, visit www.galottery.com.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16.2 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs, including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Pre-K Program. More than 1.7 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com and www.lotterybenefitsgeorgians.com
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