And that's the way the cookie crumbles...
Eight people in Brazil won the lottery after getting the numbers from fortune cookies.
The Caixa Economica Federal Bank launched an investigation because they were all from the same region. Eight of the 15 people who won the lottery in the north-east of Brazil told investigators they got the numbers from fortune cookies.
The bank found out that the numbers had appeared in fortune cookies sold by the same company to more than 50 restaurants in the region. The lucky numbers were 1, 13, 33, 38, 45 and 56. Each winner got R700 000.
Fong Yu, the owner of the cookie company, said: "The number combination is made by a machine randomly and can generate up to 171 combinations. The same combinations have been printed since 1996 and since then 29 million cookies have been sold."
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