The 66-year-old man was the lone jackpot winner in a recent drawing, and is now $7 million richer after going for the one-time, lump-sum payment option, reports the Orlando Sun Sentinel.
He didn’t decide to pick fortune cookie numbers on a whim, however, as he says he regularly plays five sets of numbers from fortune cookies he picked up from a restaurant in North Carolina.
And though it might seem like the odds of this happening even once are slim to none, just last year we heard of not one, but two lucky lottery players cashing in big with numbers played from fortune cookies.
Boca man’s fortune cookie good for $10M Lotto prize [Orlando Sun Sentinel]
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