Powerball came to Wisconsin in 1992. That same year, two friends from the Menomonie area shook hands on a deal: If either one ever hit the jackpot, they’d split it down the middle—no matter whose name was on the ticket.

Then they bought tickets every week for the next 28 years.

“We said whenever the big winner comes, we’re gonna split it, so we buy every week,” Joseph Feeney said, according to People, “not really thinking it would happen.”

According to the lottery, the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are about 1 in 292 million.

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