Tennessee couple claim their third of $1.6B Powerball jackpot

They say they are going to the Tennessee lottery to get their ticket verified later Friday.

Current events tend to gin up these types of scams in the fast-paced world of social media, where people click first and think later, he said.

Mr Robinson said he and his wife were excited about their winnings but were “a little scared” about their future.

A family-owned grocery store in a small Tennessee town sold one of the three Powerball jackpot tickets.

Under lottery rules, a victor has up to a year to present a ticket.

California Lottery officials confirmed a winning ticket for the record-breaking Powerball jackpot drawn on Wednesday was sold at a Chino Hill’s 7-Eleven. Winners can take the winnings in annual payments spread over decades or a smaller amount in a lump sum. From there he got an accountant and a lawyer, and the rest is history.

John said that they “didn’t know exactly what do to”. “I’m nervous for you”, one of the show’s hosts said to Mr Robinson, who held the piece of paper in his hand throughout the show.

The family’s life changed forever when Mr Robinson bought four Powerball tickets at his wife’s request just a few hours before Wednesday’s live television draw, then headed off to sleep because he was not feeling well.

A nurse in Pomona, California, was told by her son on January 13 that she won the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot, but it turned out to be a prank. They appreciate hard work.

If she splurges on anything, it will be her family, Lisa said. “I got to the store, and there was already a completed play slip at the playstation”, Walker explained (and, somewhere in the town of Sanford, someone is crying hysterically over their decision to buy gum, not a Powerball ticket).

Mifal Hapayis – the now state-run organization that oversees all legal gambling in Israel – goes so far as to provide masks to lottery winners so they can hide their identities in front of news cameras.

The Robinsons’ ticket, if validated, makes them one of two winners of the mammoth jackpot and means they will take home $1.15b. The spokesman said it was one of 18,000 Powerball tickets Rechnitz purchased and distributed to employees and patients at all of the nursing homes he owns, but Lottery officials quickly expressed skepticism, insisting no one had yet come forward with a valid winning ticket.

Mr Robinson works at a maintenance distribution centre and Mrs Robinson works for a dermatologist.

“Who will be coming out of the woodwork?” said Mary Sue Smith, their neighbor since about 1995.

They family has asked for people to respect their privacy, admitting they are “common folk from a small town”.

Chino Hills resident Michael Fahim says he’s happy the ticket was sold in his hometown, even if he didn’t win. Their adult daughter Tiffany stood next to them with their rescue dog Abby. “She said, ‘no.’ She didn’t believe me at first”. His wife stayed up to watch the drawing, carefully writing down the numbers. In addition to the three jackpot winners, there were more than 26 million winning tickets, paying out total cash prizes of $273,869,373, Lunsford said.

The couple waited for the news to come on in the morning and confirm there had been a victor in Munford, which is north-east of Memphis.