• kairo79 @feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    It was 8 years ago, when I threw €2 into a fortune teller machine at the fair, the machine gave me numbers and I played them the lottery. I won €50 back then!

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      3 years ago

      This is assuming that each individual fortune cookie made has a unique set of numbers and fortunes. They most certainly do not go through that much effort to ensure randomness when printing the tags, they’re likely printed in batches of 10,000+ with all the same content and put into cookies, then the cookies are mixed before shipping to ensure random fortunes per shipped box. So the actual chances of a matching number are significantly lower considering there might only be ~100000 or less different combos of lottery numbers in the nationwide cookie supply of 8 billion.

      What this does mean is that if a batch of fortune cookies did just just so happen to land on the jackpot numbers for a big lottery, you’d likely see a record number of jackpot winners and it would trigger some level of investigation into who got those numbers and how the fortune cookie companies pick them.