Hypothetical question to any interested parties:
What would you do if you entered a sweepstakes and won a wonderful prize?
There is of course a catch, you are responsible for paying the taxes on the prize (from my quick research usually about 1/3 of the value of whatever you win). Now the prize is valued at something along the lines of one to two million dollars which puts you on the hook for something along the lines of three to six hundred thousand dollars when your taxes come due.
I suppose you can take out a loan, but that is an enormous debt.
You could sell the prize, but that makes you a very sad panda as some people I know would say.
You could even decline the prize I suppose, but that wouldn't really answer the question, just get you out of answering it.
What would you do?
P.S. As I said this is purely hypothetical, I've not won anything recently let alone something worth a million or more.