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The Powerball winner anonymously claimed the prize (Alberta Times) Honshu Island Lottery Bureau officials announced on the 7th that the lottery will be held on November 28 with a prize of 587.5 million yuan...

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> The Powerball winner anonymously claimed the prize (Alberta Times) Officials from the Honshu Island Lottery Bureau announced on the 7th that the second winner of the "Powerball" prize of 587.5 million yuan in the November 28 lottery has come forward. He is a married man in his 30s who lives in Fountain Hills. However, the lucky man did not want his identity to be revealed and said he would continue to work. The winner told lottery officials that he spent ten yuan to buy the ticket and kept it tucked away behind the sun visor of his car. The winning ticket was sold at a convenience store in Fountain Hills. Lottery Bureau official Karen Buck said the man chose to receive a lump sum of $192 million in pre-tax cash. Since the island is a community property state, his wife will also own half of the winnings. The man was very financially savvy and wanted to take the time to make a solid financial plan and set up a charity to assist with the goals they supported as a couple. They also said they would continue to work. Buck said the man was a professional who used to live in Pennsylvania and moved to the state island last year. After moving to Fountain Hill, he only bought lottery tickets twice. For tax reasons, he quickly decided to accept the award this year instead of waiting until 2013, because the uncertainty of whether a fiscal cliff would occur in 2013 worried him. Another winner of the second-largest lottery jackpot ever is the Hill family of Dearborn, Missouri, who have already claimed half of their prize. This time, the Powerball Awards caused people across the United States to go crazy buying, and at one time, 130,000 tickets were sold every minute. The largest lottery prize ever was the Mega Millions prize of $656 million drawn in March this year, which was shared equally among three winners.

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