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 Amid nationwide Powerball hysteria over the biggest jackpot in U.S. history, a Tennessee family has come forward with a ticket that is one of the three winners from Wednesday's colossal $1.6 billion Powerball drawing. The winning lottery ticket was verified by NBC News. 
 
 John Robinson and his wife Lisa bought four tickets at Naifeh's Food Mart, a grocery store one block from their home in Munford, Tennessee, at 6:56 p.m. on Wednesday night. Robinson, a father of two, said he bought the four tickets as he always does to represent the four members of their family, with the computer choosing the winning numbers of 04, 08, 19, 27, 34 and Powerball 10. 
 
 "Actually, (I was) a little scared because I didn't know exactly what do to,'' John said in an exclusive interview on TODAY Friday. "I knew that I wanted to get an accountant. I knew that I wanted to get a lawyer and try to follow the procedures that they tell you to follow." 
 
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 The prize is roughly $533 million before taxes, and $327.8 million if they choose the lump-sum payment. 
 
 "Now I'll be nervous because everybody knows,'' John said. 
 
 John and Lisa Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, show off what they claim is one of the three winning Powerball tickets from the largest jackpot in history. TODAY 
 
 The couple sent copies of the ticket to NBC News, which has done a background check on them and worked to independently verify their ticket as the winner. 
 
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 The law in Tennessee stipulates that the winner has to come in person with the ticket in their hand and identification of the person who bought it. The couple verified the ticket with lottery officials after appearing on TODAY. 
 
 John and Lisa Robinson with lottery officials after getting their ticket verified. NBC News 
 
 Lisa, who works in a dermatologist's office, said she still plans on working despite the potential life-changing winnings. 
 
 "I'll be there Monday,'' Lisa said after calling her supervisor to tell her to tune in to TODAY. 
 
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 John, who works at a maintenance distribution center, has kept the ticket on him since Lisa woke him up at 4:30 a.m. on Thursday to say the numbers on one of their tickets were a match for the winning numbers. 
 
 "Actually I was on way home from work, and she had called me and said, 'Are you going to stop and get a couple lottery tickets?" John said. "I really didn't feel like stopping that night, but I was like, 'Yeah, I'll stop.' I came home, and I wasn't feeling good, and I handed the tickets to her and said, 'I'm going to go lay down.''' 
 
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 Lisa wrote the numbers down, watched the drawing and triple-checked the numbers before startling John awake with the news. The chances of winning were 1 in 292.2 million, and there were 635,103,137 total tickets sold. 
 
 "We were up all night,'' Lisa said. "We didn't get any sleep." 
 
 The family then reached out to a friend for financial advice and was put in touch with Joe Townsend, an estate planning and tax attorney in Memphis who had the idea for them to reveal themselves on TODAY. 
 
 "I think the American public wants to hear from them, and even though they want to be private after this is over, they want to let the public know that they're the winners,'' Townsend said on TODAY. 
 
 Townsend, who is a big TODAY fan, had his daughter, Eileen, reach out to the show to see if the couple could make the announcement on Friday. The Robinsons had only told only their son, daughter, two brothers and mother-in-law about their potential windfall before Friday. They said they plan on staying in Munford in their current home. 
 
 Follow TODAY.com writer Scott Stump on Twitter. ||||| Powerball jackpot co-winners Lisa and John Robinson of Munford, Tennessee speak to the media at the headquarters of the Tennessee Lottery in Nashville, Tennessee January 15, 2016. REUTERS/Harrison McClary 
 
 Powerball jackpot co-winners Lisa and John Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, their daughter Tiffany Robinson (L) and Tennessee Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Hargrove attend a news conference at the headquarters of the Tennessee Lottery in Nashville, Tennessee January 15, 2016. REUTERS/Harrison McClary 
 
 Powerball jackpot co-winners Lisa and John Robinson (L) of Munford, Tennessee and Tennessee Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Hargrove (R) attend a news conference at the headquarters of the Tennessee Lottery in Nashville, Tennessee January 15, 2016. REUTERS/Harrison McClary 
 
 NASHVILLE, Tenn. A Tennessee couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week's record $1.6 billion U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot said on Friday they will keep their jobs because "you just can't sit down and do nothing." 
 
 Lisa and John Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, appeared at a press conference at the Tennessee Lottery's offices with their adult daughter Tiffany and black and white dog Abby and said they would take their $528.8 million share in an immediate cash payment instead of annual payments over 29 years. 
 
 "We're going to take the lump sum because we're not guaranteed tomorrow," John Robinson said. 
 
 They will pay off their two children's student loans as well as their own mortgage and, after investing the rest of their new-found fortune, keep living in the same home, with the same jobs, in the Memphis suburb of Munford. 
 
 "Big fancy houses, elaborate houses, they're nice. But you have to clean them," John Robinson said. 
 
 Next week, he will return to his job at a distribution center and Lisa to her position at a dermatologist's office, they said. 
 
 "That's what we've done all our life. Work. You can't just sit down and do nothing," he said. 
 
 Robinson recalled buying the lucky ticket on Wednesday just hours before the Powerball drawing. His wife asked him to buy tickets on his way home from work, so, even though he didn't feel well, he bought them at Naifeh's Food Mart in Munford. 
 
 At home, he laid out the four tickets, one representing each family member, and took a nap. His wife kept an eye on the televised drawing and leapt up when she realized one of the tickets matched. 
 
 "I was running down the hallway screaming and crying," Lisa Robinson recalled. "I said, 'You have to check these numbers!' He was asleep and was like, 'Whaaa?'" 
 
 Once he had a good look at the ticket, he wanted to surprise Tiffany, who lives nearby. He tried to lure her over with a request that she bring him some headache medicine. 
 
 "She got someone else to bring it," he sighed. His plan foiled, Robinson spilled the good news to her over the phone. 
 
 "I said 'Tiffany, we got the winning numbers!' She said, 'No.' I said, 'Yup'," Robinson recalled. 
 
 He then consulted his brother, who works in finance and referred them to a financial advisor, who recommended a lawyer. 
 
 The couple, on their lawyer's advice, agreed to travel to New York on Thursday night to appear on NBC's Today show early on Friday. Saying they had slept only one hour in the last 48, they excused themselves from the press conference to get rest. 
 
 Holders of the two other winning tickets, which were sold in California and Florida, have yet to come forward. 
 
 Under lottery rules, a winner has up to a year to present a ticket. All three states with winners have laws requiring their names be released publicly, according to the Powerball website. 
 
 (Reporting by Barbara Goldberg, Susan Heavey and Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Bill Trott and James Dalgleish)
– Three winning tickets for the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot were announced after Wednesday night's drawing, one of them in Tennessee—and a family from the Volunteer State volunteered the info that they're the winning clan on the Today show Friday morning, per Today.com. "I was on [my] way home from work, and [my wife] had called me and said, 'Are you going to stop and get a couple lottery tickets?'" John Robinson, a maintenance distribution center worker from Munford, explained on the show. He says he didn't feel like it, but obliged anyway, buying four Quick Pick tickets at a local food mart. John wasn't feeling great that night, so he went to lie down while wife Lisa, who works in a dermatologist's office, stayed up late to watch the drawing. Fast-forward to her waking him up. "We were up all night. We didn't get [any] sleep," Lisa told Today. As for the couple's next move, "I knew that I wanted to get an accountant ... [and] a lawyer and try to follow the procedures that they tell you to follow," says John. Among those procedures, per Tennessee law, is for the person who purchased the ticket to go to lottery offices with the ticket and an ID, Today.com notes—something the Robinsons said they'd do after the Today show. So why go on national TV first? The couple, who have a son and a daughter, say a Memphis estate and tax attorney they reached out to about their windfall thought it was a great idea. "I think the American public wants to hear from them, and even though they want to be private after this is over, they want to let the public know that they're the winners," the attorney said on the show. Tennessee lottery officials did confirm one of the winning tickets was sold at the food mart where John says he bought his tickets, per Reuters. (This had better not be another awful Powerball prank—or a heartbreaking mistake.)