A Thomson woman tried her luck and won $146,115 as
one of two top prize winners in the April 7 Fantasy 5
drawing. Annette Lott, 43, said she can’t believe she’s
won.
Annette Lott with
her lottery
check
Wally’s of Thomson, 402 Main St. in Thomson, sold
the lucky ticket. Lott said she bought the ticket
because people were in the store talking about the
Fantasy 5 top prize amount.
Winning numbers from the April 7 Fantasy 5
drawing were: 2-13-24-26-36. The second top prize ticket
for the drawing was purchased in Atlanta
.
“It was just a shock to me,” Lott said. “It still
hasn’t sunk in, and it will probably take a while.”
With her winnings, Lott plans to remodel her home
and pay bills.
“This happened at a great time in my life,” she
said. “Winning is unbelievable.”
Georgia
Lottery retailers selling winning Fantasy
5 tickets receive a retailer incentive bonus of $2,000.
The retailer incentive bonus increases by $2,000 each
time Fantasy 5 rolls. If more than one winning top prize
ticket is sold, the retailers selling the top prize
winning tickets will share the bonus.
Wally’s of Thomson will receive a $4,000 retailer
incentive bonus.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery
Corporation has returned over $9 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 Prekindergarten Program. More than 1 million
students have received HOPE, and more than 790,000
4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary
prekindergarten
program.