( CNN ) -- There is a man in South Carolina who has been keeping a big secret for the past five days . Well , he did tell his dog . And , we assume , his wife . He 's probably hoping his recent good fortune stays a secret , but this will be one mighty hard life-changing event to keep under wraps . South Carolina lottery officials said a man showed up at their office Monday with the winning ticket to last Wednesday 's $ 399.4 million Powerball jackpot . In a news release , lottery officials said the man was from the Columbia area . And that 's it . They did n't say how old he was or give his name . South Carolina does n't divulge the identities of lottery winners to the public if they do n't want it to be known . Officials did say he told them he was driving home when his wife called and told him they needed hot dog buns . So he pulled into a Murphy USA convenience store but there were no buns . There was a sign for the lottery , so -- for only the second time -- he played , putting down a $ 20 . On Thursday , he was at home with just his dog when he checked the numbers . And he had the ticket with the winning numbers : 7 , 10 , 22 , 32 , 35 and Powerball 19 . One that flies in the face of the formidable 1-in-175,223,510 odds . Powerball trio strikes it rich with $ 448 million jackpot . The Murphy store will receive a cool $ 50,000 for selling the ticket . The release did n't say whether the man chose a 29-year annuity plan or took a cash prize of $ 223 million . Wednesday 's haul was the fourth largest lottery price in U.S. history , the biggest prize ever in South Carolina . The biggest payload in American history was $ 665 million in the Mega Millions game in March 2012 . The greatest Powerball jackpot was the $ 590.5 million won with a single ticket in Florida this past May . So now people in Columbia might be a whole lot nicer to each other . After all , you never know if that guy you just served dinner to is worth hundreds of millions of dollars . Why you keep playing the lottery .
The officials say it is a man from the Columbia area of South Carolina . He says he has only played the lottery twice . He was actually searching for hot dog buns , but was missing out on the bread . Instead he takes home a whole lot of money -- the prize was nearly $ 1 million .