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Feb 24, 2004, 5:54 am (3 comments)
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 north-eastern states of Brazil.
The lucky numbers were 01, 13, 33, 38, 45 and 56. Each winner got £60,000.
Fong Yu, the owner of the cookie company, told Folha de Sao Paulo: "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 of cookies have been sold."
Ananova
Numbers 01 and 13 also showed up in a Virginia fortune cookie recently :-)
Wonder what the fortune cookie said :)
im going out to buy some fortu