AUSTIN (KXAN) — A winning lottery ticket that won half of $1.8 billion jackpot has been claimed by a lottery trust in Fredericksburg. A lottery trust helps keep the winner of lottery prizes worth $1 million or more anonymous.

The ticket, in the Sept. 6 drawing, was claimed by Seven Bridges Revocable Trust. It was one of two winning tickets, with the other sold in Missouri.

The Fredericksburg player selected the cash value option when buying the ticket, meaning their prize was $410,324,470.28 before taxes.

The lucky player usually selects random numbers when playing the lottery, but this time they chose numbers meaningful to them, a representative of the trust said, according to a press release from the Texas Lottery.

"However, after they purchased the ticket, they realized one of the n

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