Fortune cookies lucky for 110 lottery winners
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The cookie crumbled right for 110 people who chose Chinese food.
Betting on the numbers recommended in fortune cookies, they won from $100,000 to half a million dollars each in a multi-state U.S. Powerball lottery, organization director Charles Strutt said on Wednesday.
By the laws of statistical probability, there should have been only four or five winners among the 10.4 million ticket buyers in the lottery operated by the governments of 27 U.S. States, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
But there were nearly 20 times that many, meaning $19 million had to be paid to unexpected winners in the March 30 drawing.
Read the complete article at My Way News
Betting on the numbers recommended in fortune cookies, they won from $100,000 to half a million dollars each in a multi-state U.S. Powerball lottery, organization director Charles Strutt said on Wednesday.
By the laws of statistical probability, there should have been only four or five winners among the 10.4 million ticket buyers in the lottery operated by the governments of 27 U.S. States, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
But there were nearly 20 times that many, meaning $19 million had to be paid to unexpected winners in the March 30 drawing.
Read the complete article at My Way News
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