$50,000 Powerball Ticket Sold New Year's Day In Cumming

CUMMING, GA — If you bought a Powerball ticket on New Year's Day in Cumming, you might be starting off your year a bit richer.

Two Georgia Lottery players rang in the New Year with Powerball tickets worth $50,000 each. The tickets were sold in the Jan. 1 drawing.

The tickets were purchased at Shell Food Mart, located at 356 Moreland Ave. SE in Atlanta and Publix Super Market #0519, located at 580 Atlanta Road in Cumming.

Winning numbers for the Jan. 1 drawing were: 49-53-57-59-62 and the Powerball was 26.

The lucky tickets matched the first four winning numbers with the Powerball.

Winners have not come forward to claim either prize yet. Powerball winners in Georgia have 180 days from the draw date to claim prizes.

Saturday’s Powerball jackpot is an estimated $237 million to a single annuity winner.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $21.3 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 1.8 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.6 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.