numbers on a fortune cookie message.
A fortune cookie company once guessed the lottery numbers correctly in
2005. Across six different states in the US, 110 lottery winners used the
numbers they received from messages in fortune cookies. An average of four
winners were expected for the Powerball drawing, which led the lottery
organizers to open an investigation. It was suspected that a computer error
or scam was the reason behind the high number of lottery prize winners, who
received prizes from $100,000 US Dollars (USD) to $500,000 USD. However,
the investigation found that the winners all coincidentally had fortune
cookies from the same New York based fortune cookie company. The Powerball
lottery organizers ended up paying an additional $19 million USD in
unanticipated prizes.
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