So you thought the lucky numbers inside those Chinese fortune cookies were a joke?
Don't tell that to Emma Duvoll, 75, of the Bronx, New York.
Duvoll played the lucky numbers from inside a fortune cookie on a Powerball ticket for the Feb. 1 drawing with a $193 million jackpot.
When she matched five numbers, Duvoll won $2 million, the New York Lottery said Thursday.
"I was surprised, but pleased," Duvoll told lottery officials.
She purchased the winning ticket at the Hannaford market on Ted Drive in upstate Pine Bush.
Her ticket matched the numbers 5, 12, 15, 27 and 38 but missed out on the Powerball, 7. Matching five numbers won $1 million.
Because she chose the Power Play option — paying an extra $1 — she increased her payout to $2 million.
She will get a onetime lump-sum payment totaling $1,246,085 after required withholdings, the lottery said.
"I took some time contemplating what I will do with the money," Duvall said Thursday in Manhattan, where several other New York City winners were introduced, according to the lottery. "I plan to invest most of it, and maybe take a trip to Switzerland to visit family."
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Wow! A fortune cookie number and powerplay! Impressive player.
It's a conspiracy I tell ya... the chinese are putting messages in food....They are takin' over....
ALRIGHT EMMA !!!! kudos to you and your choice...gotta like it
Great story,it doesn,t matter where or how you divise ur numbers fortune cookie,birthdays,ages address,etc.Its all the luck of the draw.A dollar an a dream,mega here I COME.
That's adorable.
You know what, i've been thinking of doing similar to your suggestion, it occurred to me one day walking through the woods.. I know it sounds crazy but one draw i plan buy like 100 tickets of the same numbers but was thinking of Mega Millions. Its something i'll definitely do one day. Like if i get a dream or have a 'feeling' about a set of numbers. Just think, you could buy 100 MM tickets with multiplier and end up winning $500 MILLION. What the Heck would they do? They'd be investigating for a year. hahah. And to top it off the amount you would win would be the full $500 MILLION. Since it wasnt the jackpot, you wouldnt be getting the 'cash option prize' but instead the total amount. I'm definitely doing it one day. Not this week though, too broke this weekend and no good feeling about a set of numbers. Going to do it though, just watch me take Mega Millions to the bank. Might just go crazy and buy 200 tickets one day instead, that a possible BILLION!!! LOL!!!!
This is one of the reasons l think having a " system" can at times mean squat.If one can win with numbers from a wedding, birthday, baptism, why not a Fortune cookie? Numbers are all around us folk, winning numbers at that.
Congratulations.
fortune cookie numbers were the only way I ever hit PB 4+0 with PP for $400 a few years back.
Horray for fortune numbers!
What did the fortune say? I have a fortune cookie number in my picked numbers. It came from a fortune that said "May you grow rich".
I recall there were a large number of 2nd place winners years ago in Powerball, something like over 100. The officials suspected foul play only to find out that 5 winning numbers were printed on thousands of fortune cookie inserts and many people played them.
You can never discount fortune cookie lotto predictions...
Do numbers from a Fortune Cookie qualify as a " Quick Pick?"
Strange story. She gets the numbers from Manhattan then plays them 2hrs away at a town in the middle of no where. Guessing she went to the nearby casino.
I usually don't get along with Swissmen but she looks like a nice lady.
So I wish her the best.
Swiss cheese is highly overrated though.
And that's what usually starts the arguments.
They just can't accept that fact.
The Swiss are very hardheaded people.
Great story, love fortune cookies...Congrats to the Lucky Lady!
Congratulations Emma. Way to go. Numbers come by us every day, in varied ways. You siezed the moment and used a fortune cookie. Good for You.
You crack me up Dana...
I plays the numbers that come in my fortune cookie whenever i eat at the Chinese buffet, maybe i can win the big Jackpot.
I remember that and I think it was in NY. 2nd place payout was quite a bit less(perhaps 100k)
Could you imagine if that happened these days, the total payout could easily exceed the jackpot!
I always play them expecting not to win. I got 5 of 6 on the Florida Lotto one time.
You don't get along with those ol switzerland people do you. Those hard headed people that have a strong currency, low unemployment, low crime, strong private banking, highly educated, limited federal government, never invaded anyone, never been invaded, limited welfare state, balanced budget, strong gun rights, lots of liberty, and lots of gold. Those ol stuburn swiss cheese people. How could they.
Of course your politicians over here who have butchered this countries middle class are acting like they are trying their best to start nuclear world war 3 with russia! Alot of good a lottery win will do one of us here at lottery post when our bank account is big but our skin is frying because of nuclear fallout. Lets all hope and pray smarter brains prevail.
The nerve of those mean ol swiss.
Two weeks ago I won one Megamillion number, 14 with another white ball number using Chinese fortune cookies that I pick up at one of the dining halls where I work. I even ordered a packet of Chinese fortune cookies which I received a couple of weeks ago. After cracking the cookies, I take the fortune slips at home and enter them in my computer base. I baptized the the file I input the numbers in, "Chinalucky." In my opinion from experience, the numbers imprinted of the slips gotten from the fortune cookies stand a chance of winning something than those from astrologers and psychics. I have won a Mega ball or two, previously, using imprinted numbers on slips from Chinese fortune cookies. I am very optimistic that one I may win a lotto Jackpot or at least one of those big secondary lotto prizes using numbers from fortune cookies.
I would call them "pre-selected" Quick Picks. Personally, I do not play Quick Picks from lotto machines, though I one day stumbled upon a Quick Pick number that had mysteriously been left on the shop's front desk. I thought I would win by playing those numbers from that Quick Pick on the presumption that a guardian angel had left that Quick Pick combination for me. As usual, I did not win playing those numbers. That is why in my case, the only "Quick Picks" I play are from fortune cookies, astrologers and psychics!!!
Don't tell me about Swissmen until you've practically choked to death on a cube of Gruyere after being told it was Vacherin Fribourgeois! Idiots!
Congratulation Mrs Duvoll
I think you should have kept those numbers and played them over and over for at least a month or so. these things can be quite myterious you know!!
Ah good humor ridge. For me i have to stick with soy cheese haha. I wish you "Viel Gluck bie der Verlosong am Abend"
I think it's more likely she was visiting family or friends there. The casino isn't THAT close to Pine Bush; Google Maps says Monticello is about a half hour drive from there. And unless she was taking a heck of a long way around, it's out of the way as well. Plus she could have just as easily played the numbers at the casino.
Maybe that's why they insist upon neutrality.
Swiss cheese isn't for everyone and it doesn't go with everything, but sometimes you just can't beat a good ham and Swiss on rye. Mmm-MMM!
you just never can tell when lady luck is going to be knocking on your door, CONGRATS to Emma!
Woodstock is up the road so maybe she went back to the field to find her peace pipe.
I admit sometimes I will play 1 game using the numbers out of a fortune cookie. I've not gotten lucky yet. But hope to one day. LOL
Congrats to Emma on her win.
continue buying cookies.
This definitely lives up to the term "Good Fortune", and the food wasn't bad either.
Her ticket matched the numbers 5, 12, 15, 27 and 38 but missed out on the Powerball, 7.
Matching five numbers won $1 million.