He said he plans to purchase a waterfront home and intends to help family.

“I’m going to try to get a house on the water on the Trent canal system … a nice car but nothing outlandishly lavish or anything, something nice like that,” he adds. “And of course I take care of my family. I have sisters and brothers and nieces and nephews.”

The magnitude of the win is still sinking in.

“It’s pretty hard to comprehend at first, of course,” he adds. “But when you realize how much you can do and how you can help the family and everything, it brings you up there pretty good.”

The cab driver who ferried Mason to the pharmacy on Saturday was no doubt smiling, too.

“I gave him a $100 tip,” he says. “He knew I won.”