Every square inch, every angle, and making backups of the photos. Adding on to that. I would shoot a video of the ticket, and make printed copies of it too. Doing this will ensure that I have concrete digital proof of me owning the winning ticket, in case of a bizarre incident happens.
After cashing in the ticket as an anonymous person and deducting the taxes and necessities with an attorney from a national firm. I would leave my house immediately without telling anybody, not a single person, and move into a hotel in the nearest big city. That sounds a bit extreme, right? Doing this will let me be alone to deal with the extreme intense situation that I’m bundled in, and without letting myself be paranoid of my surroundings. Although, I’ll probably leave a note just in case my parents don’t get the wrong idea that I got kidnapped or something.
Once I settled in the hotel, I would get the most competent lawyer, financial adviser, and accountant. I would give the lawyer instructions on how to help my family pay off their bills, buy a house and a car, to insure them out of everything, and have more than enough for retirement and beyond. And that’s it. I will never lend my money to anyone else, ever. Once I’ve given the details to my lawyer about how I want my money to be distributed to my entire family, that’s it. The rest will be kept to