Fortune cookie bet made Powerball lottery players rich

Comment #11

CASH Only — Mon, 16 May 2005 15:42:40 GMT

Not much better.

Comment #10

ryanm — Sun, 15 May 2005 19:59:52 GMT

Oh man, if the sixth number had been 40 instead of 42, people would have rioted in the streets

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LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 12 May 2005 21:35:35 GMT

shame on wong......SIGN THE PETITION to eliminate computerized drawings.

Comment #8

whodeani — Thu, 12 May 2005 20:20:04 GMT

I'm going to take this in a bit of a different direction. I saw this story posted on msn.com today. This story is big news?????? This happened a month and a half ago. This another illustration of how far behind the ball the main stream media is.As for the the fortune cookie method. I don't think it would be too smart for people to out and start playing fortune cookie numbers. I think it would be extremely odd for another fortune cookie number to hit again anytime soon.

Comment #7

RJOh — Thu, 12 May 2005 15:31:21 GMT

With all the lottery software on the market that claim to pick the winning numbers a good percent of the time, one would think the same thing would have happened with a group of players using the same lottery software. I suspect that most lottery software have no strategy to pick any particular combinations or this would have happened by now. If the those fortune cookie makers ever wanted to start selling their cookies as lottery software, they will have some good testimonials from some actual... [ More ]

Comment #6

time*treat — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:27:04 GMT

Sometimes people say in public what they, in private, are TOLD to say. If Mr. Wong don't want no extra visits from the health inspector, building inspector etc, he'll go to computerized drawings like everyone else.

Comment #5

lottolady24 — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:02:40 GMT

Okay, so they pick the numbers out of a bowl and it hits. The logical thing to do next is to do a computer drawing so it will completely scramble the odds and sensibility of a system that worked well in the first place. Yeah! Someone needs to refer Mr. Wong to the forums on this site. Does anyone in the outside world know about this computerized drawing scandal

Comment #4

DoubleDown — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:31:31 GMT

Waah !!The states were crying..... They had to pay more than expected on that draw. Whatever

Comment #3

golotto — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:20:10 GMT

[...The workers put numbers in a bowl and pick them. We are not going to do the bowl anymore; we are going to have a computer, Mr. Wong said. It's more efficient. ...]With all due respect, Mr. Wong, The bowl method worked! ...the fortune cookie company should keep the bowl and forget the computers.

Comment #2

Todd — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:06:46 GMT

That's a really good point about the states saving money. They must have been hating life after seeing all those 5+0 winners! I don't think they mind as much seeing a jackpot winner, because that comes out of the shared jackpot pool, rather than out of the individual state funds.

Comment #1

JAG331 — Wed, 11 May 2005 15:45:14 GMT

I think maybe the workers enjoy picking the numbers...and will hate going to computerized draws The sixth number being 40 instead of 42 would've been better, saving Powerball $19 million since everyone would've split the $25 million jackpot. $76,000 post-tax cash for 111 winners.

Fortune cookie bet made Powerball lottery players rich

Lottery Post — Wed, 11 May 2005 15:23:21 GMT

Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud: how could 110 players in the March 30 drawing get five of the six numbers right? That made them all second-prize winners, and considering the number of tickets sold in the 29 states where the game is played, there should have been only four or five.

Many different brands of fortune cookies come from Wonton Food's Long Island City factory.

But from state after state they kept coming in, the one-in-three-million combination of 22, 28, 32, 33, 39... [ More ]