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The good news: Maine is the seventh luckiest state in the nation with five lottery jackpot winners receiving a total combined jackpot of $1.2 billion. The bad news: The odds of winning the big jackpot in a lottery like Powerball are 1 in 300 million.
The winner claimed their winnings through a limited liability company.
The winner remains anonymous after coming forward through a company that acted as a legal representative.
Two Powerball tickets sold in California and Wisconsin matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing for a combined total of $632 million.
Newspaper headlines, The jackpot will be shared between the two winners, meaning they each take home $316.3 million before taxes.