Has anyone ever played the numbers on the back of your fortune cookie slip, and won?
 

I am eating some take out Chinese, and it came with a wrapped fortune cookie.

The advice it offered was: Speak well of people and you need never whisper, which I actually think is a really neat phrase, but I'm curious if anyone ever played the lotto numbers on the back of their fortune and won?

i've played the numbers before but never won anything.

Funny you bring that up. I just bought a lotto ticket and used the numbers from the fortune cookie I had gotten that day. Never done it before but I figured what the heck, those numbers are as good as any. If I win I'll let you know. Heck, I'll let EVERYONE know. I'll be dancing on the roof and howling at the moon. I'll also eat more Chinese take-out.

I had this thought last week. I had chinese, a buffet, that was terrible, but thought about playing the numbers, just because. I didn't though, damnit!

I never have, but I have tried prayer...that doesn't work either.

I used to eat chinese a lot. I kept (and still do when I occasionally eat chinese food) my fortunes... But I play the lottery literally like 4-5 times a year.. and I always just take random numbers in powerball, etc.

I have always said that if I looked at the back of a fortune and saw a set of numbers that seemed lucky, I'd play them... I never have found a set that I felt compelled to play.

They have lucky numbers on the back of fortune cookies? I usually get the "learn chinese" on the back of my cookies.

I don't do fortune cookies.

Indeed, I find them mildly offensive. :)


Mr Mephisto

Now that's an interesting thing to hear.

Why do you dislike fortune cookies, if I may ask?

I have never played the lottery, and I rarely eat chinese; so no, I haven't ever won anything :D

I've never played teh Lottery before. Ever.

Well, the same reason I hate tarot card readers, astrologers, fortune tellers, "psychics" and the whole range of charlatans who prey of silly or vulnerable people's issues and weakened common sense.

I said "mildly", as I tend to think they are generally good natured and are also associated with certain cultures (which I respect). I restrict my hatred for those I refer to above. :)


Mr Mephisto