Origins: The 30 March 2005 Powerball drawing wasn't the only time a fortune cookie had been successfully used to garner a lottery windfall. A decade earlier, two of the three winners who split a ...

NEW YORK, May 11 -- -- "All the preparation you've done will finally be paying off," read the fortune in Jacquelyn W. Garrett's cookie. The prophecy caught her eye, but it was the ...

The Towson grandmother, who tries to buy a lottery ticket any time her horoscope includes the word “numbers,” used numbers from a fortune cookie on a ticket for the Jan. 8 Powerball drawing ...

CORNELIUS, N.C. — Gabriel Fierro, of Cornelius, took the numbers from his fortune cookie and used them in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, turning a $3 ticket into a $4 million prize.