ATLANTA – A first-time lottery player is a new millionaire. Shaadi Edwards, 27, won $1 million by matching the first five winning numbers in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing.
Edwards realized she won after seeing the draw results on Twitter.
“It felt surreal,” she said.
A resident of Atlanta, Edwards hopes to purchase a home, pay off her grandparents’ house, and do advocacy work.
Winning numbers from the drawing were: 4-8-19-27-34 and the Powerball was 10.
Edwards used ages and birthdays to select her winning combination.
Quik Mart, located at 48 Broad St. S.W. in Atlanta, sold the lucky ticket. A second $1 million ticket was purchased in Douglas.
As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Powerball will benefit education in the state of Georgia.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $17 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 1.4 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp. and Powerball, please visit:
www.galottery.com and www.powerball.com
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