Two Georgia Players Became Instant Millionaires on Scratch-Offs

Two Georgia players turned a scratch-off ticket into a million dollars in June 2026. One hit the top prize on 50X The Money in Fayetteville, the other on Millionaire Maker in Jasper, and each walked away with $1,000,000. They headlined a strong month for Georgia Lottery players that also included nearly $1.9 million in Fantasy 5 jackpots.

The Two Million-Dollar Tickets

The Fayetteville winner claimed a $1 million top prize on 50X The Money, a $10 scratch-off. The ticket was bought at the Publix Super Market on Glynn Street and claimed on June 22. A day later, a player in Jasper claimed the same $1 million prize on Millionaire Maker, a $30 game, with a ticket purchased at the Amoco West Market on Highway 53 West.

Can You Still Chase These Prizes?

One of the two games is still very much in play. On ScratchCheck's data, Millionaire Maker is one of the stronger tickets in the state, with a ValueScore™ of 83.9, overall odds of 1 in 2.53, an 83.5% payout, and 10 of its 19 $1,000,000 top prizes still on the board. If the million is what you are after, that game still has plenty of it left.

50X The Money is a different story. It was an unusually generous $10 ticket, a million-dollar top prize on a game that cheap is rare, but it has since been retired and is no longer on sale. The Fayetteville winner caught it while it was still around. You can see where every active Georgia game stands on the Georgia ValueScore™ rankings.

The Rest of a Big Month

Draw players got in on the fun too. Fantasy 5 players won a combined $1.87 million across June, led by a $539,327 jackpot on a ticket sold at a Decatur food mart on June 15 and a $515,729 win in Atlanta on June 21. Georgia's digital games paid out too, with a Covington player claiming $598,244 on Money Strike Jackpots, the largest Diggi Games prize of the period, and a Pooler player winning $243,516 on 100X The Money Quick Win through the lottery app.

Draw games rounded out the month. Five Powerball players won $50,000 each on tickets sold in Savannah, Fayetteville, Dallas, Adairsville, and Lawrenceville, and a handful of Mega Millions players in towns like Cumming and Marietta collected prizes in the $20,000 to $30,000 range.

A note for the two new millionaires: a $1,000,000 scratch-off prize is a pre-tax number, and federal and Georgia taxes come off before it lands in the bank. Our guide on how much you actually take home from a lottery jackpot runs the math.

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