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Terms you can choose

Not verified: Official sources disagree about which periods exist. The enrollment page's dropdown offers 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years and 10 years, and the Play Responsibly overview lists the same six. The Program Terms PDF says "3 months, 6 months, 9 months, or one year", and the Reinstatement policy says the period "can be 3, 6, 9, or 12 months". The dropdown's "1 year" and "2 years" options both carry the value 12, and the page's code turns that value into an end date 12 months out, so picking "2 years" submits one year (read 2026-10-01). What the Corporation's server stores after the request arrives was not observed.

When it ends

This continues until you request removal.

Your account does not come back on its own when the period ends. It stays suspended until you ask. Reinstatement takes a call to the Player Information Hotline at 1-800-GA-LUCKY (1-800-425-8259). The Corporation says it "will exercise due diligence in evaluating your request" and starts reinstatement "upon a satisfactory evaluation", which it expects to take about 10 business days. So reinstatement is not automatic, and the Corporation does not publish what it looks for. No self-service reinstatement is described. During the term the Corporation states the process cannot be reversed for any reason.

How to enroll

Open Self Exclusion in your Georgia Lottery account.

The switch lives inside your own logged-in iHOPE account, so you need an account you already hold to use it. Pick a duration and click Proceed. Opening the page does not exclude you; submitting the choice does. The Corporation does not say how quickly it takes effect. When the request goes through, the page tells you "You are now self-excluded." and logs you out. No email receipt is described, so try signing in afterwards to check. We cannot do this for you.

1. Sign in to your Georgia Lottery iHOPE account and open the Self Exclusion page under My Account. There is no form to download. The Lottery's pages also say you can request self-exclusion by calling the Player Information Hotline at 1-800-GA-LUCKY (1-800-425-8259). They do not say which periods a phone request offers or how fast it takes effect.
2. Pick a duration from the dropdown. It lists 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years and 10 years, although the Lottery's Program Terms PDF names only 3, 6 and 9 months and one year. Read the caution on the 2-year option before you choose.
3. Before you click Proceed, minimize the balance in the account. The Program Terms make that your job and say funds left in it "may be forfeited", although the same document says the Lottery refunds a balance by check. Then click Proceed, and Proceed again in the confirmation dialog. The Corporation states the process cannot be reversed for any reason during the term.
4. Once it takes hold, the account and the mobile app become inaccessible, you cannot deposit, withdraw or buy any Georgia Lottery product through the account, you cannot apply for a new account, and promotional email stops. The Corporation publishes no timing. A dialog reading "You are now self-excluded." appears when the request goes through, and no email receipt is described. You have to unfollow the Georgia Lottery on social media yourself — the page says "The GLC is unable to do this for you."
5. When the period ends your account is not restored on its own. Call the Player Information Hotline at 1-800-GA-LUCKY (1-800-425-8259) to request reinstatement. The Corporation evaluates the request and starts reinstatement only "upon a satisfactory evaluation", which it expects to take about 10 business days. It does not publish what it looks for. Until you ask, the account stays suspended.

Before you count on it. The duration dropdown on the Corporation's own site has a defect, confirmed on 2026-10-01 by reading the page and its code: the "1 year" and "2 years" options carry the identical value of 12, and the page's code turns that value into an end date 12 months out. Picking "2 years" submits one year, while the confirmation dialog still says 2 years. If you want more than one year, the next option on the menu is 5 years. You can call the Player Information Hotline at 1-800-GA-LUCKY (1-800-425-8259) with questions about the term you chose. This reaches your online account and the mobile app. Lottery tickets sold in stores stay available to you, and so do Class A/B coin-operated amusement machines, which the same Corporation licenses and which its COAM pages describe no self-exclusion mechanism for. The Georgia Secretary of State says gambling other than the lottery, raffles and charity bingo is prohibited in Georgia, and we found no casino, sports-betting or racing regulator, so no other state list was found to join. The Secretary of State regulates charity bingo, and the bingo rules have no self-exclusion. You need an iHOPE account you already hold; no residency rule is published, and whether someone outside Georgia can use this is unresolved. Nothing is published about how quickly it takes effect. The only confirmation is the on-screen dialog, and no receipt is described. You also cannot apply for a new Georgia Lottery account while it runs. It does not lift on its own when the period ends. Reinstatement takes a phone call and a satisfactory evaluation by the Corporation, so it is not automatic. Opening the Self Exclusion page does not exclude you; only submitting the choice does.