The buzz around Oregon's massive $1.3 billion Powerball prize has finally been pinned to a nameless winner, who evidently has the golden ticket but is cocooned in mystery until further notice. According to a statement by the Oregon Lottery released late Monday, the besieged Plaid Pantry convenience store on Northeast Columbia Boulevard in Portland is the ordinary-looking birthplace of the extraordinary winning ticket, becoming an overnight landmark for dreamers and opportunists alike, as reported by KGW News.

While some lottery winners strut their stuff immediately, the loaded victor of the fourth largest-ever Powerball jackpot is laying low, and the Oregon Lottery's lips are sealed tighter than Al Capone's vault until the due diligence dance is done, but despite the excitement, the individual's identity remains under wraps due to what the Oregon Lottery calls, a process involving security measures and vetting that will seriously take time, according to FOX16.

Lottery Director Mike Wells threw in his two cents, declaring, "This is an unprecedented jackpot win for Oregon Lottery," a sentiment echoed by the media and every Oregonian who’s ever scribbled numbers on a lottery slip hoping to hit big. In his statement, Wells underlined the significance of verifying the winner's legitimacy before releasing the jackpot which flipped the life of one unknown person from a paperback fiction to a Forbes magazine feature story.

Meanwhile, the neighborhood Plaid Pantry where the jackpot was struck is no footnote in this saga; it has been rewarded with its slice of luck, a $100,000 seller’s bonus that the store's management hopes will bolster business and buy some local goodwill, the store likely to be flocked by lottery enthusiasts and the curious, as witnessed following major lottery wins—an occurrence not unfamiliar in the realms of sudden windfalls, as detailed by KOIN 6 News, which initially pinpointed the store as the origin of the golden ticket through process of elimination.