Homemade Fortune Cookies . (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) RALEIGH, N.C. - A Florida man is $500,000 richer after winning the North Carolina lottery with numbers he got from a fortune cookie.
Ernesto Sorzana said he picked up his favorite Chinese take-out of fried rice and shrimp along with the fortune cookie. He then bought a lottery ticket from a 7-Eleven store in Huntersville, North Carolina based off the fortune cookie’s numbers.
The numbers matched all four white ball numbers plus the Powerball from the Feb. 27 drawing - winning him the jackpot. "That was a good investment," Sorzano said in a news release.RELATED: Powerball $731.1M jackpot: How long before ticket sold in Maryland expires?