The Texas Powerball ticketholder who split the $1.78 billion jackpot in September revealed they selected the numbers by accident — but are “blessed” to share the life-changing money with their community.

Seven Bridges Revocable Trust, a group out of Fredericksburg, Texas, stepped forward Monday to claim its half of the second-largest grand prize in Powerball and US lottery history.

The group chose to receive their winnings in a one-time lump sum of $410.3 million. 3

Numbers were selected by the group, who usually pick at random but decided to make it personal, choosing digits that “were meaningful to them,” the Texas Lottery said on Monday.

The group purchased the ticket at Big’s 103 gas station in Fredericksburg, a rural city, 75 miles west of Austin, but later realized on

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