ATLANTA — A Georgia Lottery player won $50,000 in the Oct. 19 Powerball drawing from a ticket purchased at a Stockbridge convenience store.
[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]
Meanwhile, a Sandy Springs resident won $100,000 playing an online lottery game on the same day.
The $50,000 ticket was sold at Chevron Food Mart, at 630 Fairview Road in Stockbridge. The player matched four of the five white-ball numbers plus the Powerball to win the prize.
All Georgia Lottery proceeds benefit education programs across the state, including higher education scholarships and early childhood education.
The winning Powerball numbers for the Oct. 19 drawing were 08-31-32-42-48 with red Powerball 23.
In Sandy Springs, the $100,000 winner won playing the Soccer Fortune Diggi Game on Oct. 19. Diggi Games are offered exclusively through the Georgia Lottery website and mobile app for players located within the state.
TRENDING STORIES:
- Atlanta Dream even WNBA finals with win over Valkyries
- Karl Smesko took a bold leap from FGCU to the Atlanta Dream. It paid off with a WNBA Finals run
- State Farm Arena gets boost from Cisco to upgrade network, wireless service
Powerball tickets cost $2, with an optional Power Play add-on for $1. Drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee, Florida, and are livestreamed online.
The overall odds of winning any prize are one in 24.9, while the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Since its inception, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $31.3 billion to the state for education. Proceeds fund Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Pre-K Program, benefiting more than 2.3 million scholarship recipients and more than 2.3 million 4-year-olds in prekindergarten.
The next Powerball drawing will take place Oct. 21, for an estimated jackpot of $635 million.
[SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
©2026 Cox Media Group
