Funny and Fabulous Fortune Cookies

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:08 am

Some of these are great! I've only ever gotten mundane advice from fortune cookies but sometimes they're in pidgin english which I think adds to the humor. I wonder if anyone has ever won the lottery after playing numbers advised in their fortune cookie? I've never seen a news report showing someone standing there holding their oversize lottery check and giving credit for their win to their recent lunch at a chinese restaurant but who knows!

Funny and Fabulous Fortune Cookies | Mental Floss

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:22 am

Actually, several people have won lottery prizes after using the numbers from fortune cookies.

This was was the most recent: $1 million Mass. lottery winner credits fortune cookie message - NY Daily News

In NY, once, the lottery commission investigated a fortune cookie maker to find out how they got their numbers because so many people had given their recent fortune cookie as the source of their numbers.

snopes.com: Lottery Numbers from Fortune Cookie

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:35 am

LarsMac;1434490 wrote: Actually, several people have won lottery prizes after using the numbers from fortune cookies.

This was was the most recent: $1 million Mass. lottery winner credits fortune cookie message - NY Daily News

In NY, once, the lottery commission investigated a fortune cookie maker to find out how they got their numbers because so many people had given their recent fortune cookie as the source of their numbers.

snopes.com: Lottery Numbers from Fortune Cookie

I had no idea! :yh_money:yh_money:yh_ooooo

I shouldn't have been a scoffer! While I was scoffing, others were winning. Guess who is going to play the next fortune cookie numbers she gets!

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:49 pm

They don't have the lottery in this state, it's probably breaking some religious law and I'm too lazy to drive into Idaho to play. Too bad, I get fortune cookies (with my dinner) about every month or so. I coulda been a contenda!

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:28 pm

I have always wanted to work In a fortune cookie factory and Instead of putting In the usual stuff, put In something like ' you stink'.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:47 pm

I attended a party a few years back where someone had ordered custom fortune cookies and tipped off the waiter as to who got which cookie. It was a strange and eery situation until it finally became obvious that we had been had.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:10 am

SnoozeAgain;1434596 wrote: They don't have the lottery in this state, it's probably breaking some religious law and I'm too lazy to drive into Idaho to play. Too bad, I get fortune cookies (with my dinner) about every month or so. I coulda been a contenda!

I'll tell you what ... you send your fortune cookie numbers to me and I'll buy us a lottery ticket. I promise I'd share 50/50 with you if the numbers win ... TRUST me ...

SaraGilb_675 · Post by **SaraGilb_675** » Wed Aug 13, 2025 4:30 am

I once got one that read Opportunity knocks only once. I stared at it for a moment, then realized I’d already eaten it!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Aug 13, 2025 4:56 am

SaraGilb_675 wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 4:30 am I once got one that read Opportunity knocks only once. I stared at it for a moment, then realized I’d already eaten it!

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Post by **spot** » Wed Aug 13, 2025 11:52 am

Bryn Mawr wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 4:56 am
SaraGilb_675 wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 4:30 am I once got one that read Opportunity knocks only once. I stared at it for a moment, then realized I’d already eaten it!
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Hi Sara,

I've never seen a fortune cookie. I don't know what they do or who they're made by or whether they're edible. Nor what eating one does to the fortune - I know what it would do to the cookie though. A cookie is a biscuit.

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