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The winning ticket was purchased at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine, making it the fourth-largest lottery payout in US history.

The clerk's innocent mistake worked in Mr Sopestal's favor. He won $25,000 a year playing Lucky for Life in the game's September 17 draw.

Mr Riedel, who drives a truck for a concrete company, said he has played the game regularly since it launched in 2001.

In the week since news surfaced that a Chicago man was poisoned to death with cyanide just before he was to collect a lottery payout, surprising details about his convoluted family saga have trickled out daily.

The winning ticket was purchased at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine, making it the fourth-largest lottery payout in US history.

The clerk's innocent mistake worked in Mr Sopestal's favor. He won $25,000 a year playing Lucky for Life in the game's September 17 draw.

Mr Riedel, who drives a truck for a concrete company, said he has played the game regularly since it launched in 2001.

In the week since news surfaced that a Chicago man was poisoned to death with cyanide just before he was to collect a lottery payout, surprising details about his convoluted family saga have trickled out daily.