{"id":765014,"date":"2022-01-25T02:20:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T02:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/man-wins-4-million-mega-millions-prize-using-fortune-cookie-numbers\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T02:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T02:20:48","slug":"man-wins-4-million-mega-millions-prize-using-fortune-cookie-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/man-wins-4-million-mega-millions-prize-using-fortune-cookie-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wins $4 million Mega Millions prize using fortune cookie numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 24 (UPI) —<\/span> A North Carolina man said the lottery numbers that earned him a $4 million prize from a Mega Millions drawing came from an unusual source: a fortune cookie.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Fierro, 60, of Cornelius, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought his ticket for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing online, and he used the numbers from a fortune cookie he got while dining with his wife at the Red Bowl Asian Bistro in Charlotte.\n<\/p>\n

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“I don’t usually play my fortune cookie numbers ,but I tried them on a whim,” Fierro said.<\/p>\n

Fierro’s ticket matched all five white balls in the drawing, earning a $1 million prize that was quadrupled to $4 million when the 4X Megaplier ball was drawn.<\/p>\n

“I got an email in the morning and I just stared at it dumbfounded,” Fierro said. “I took it and showed it to my wife and she thought it was an April Fool’s joke or maybe a scam.”<\/p>\n

Fierro said the shock eventually died down and enthusiasm took over.<\/p>\n

“We started running around the house,” Fierro said, “screaming like a bunch of banshees.”<\/p>\n

Fierro said most of the prize money would be invested, but he did have one small purchase in mind for his winnings: “We are going to buy some champagne on the way home.”\n<\/p>\n

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Jan. 24 (UPI) — A North Carolina man said the lottery numbers that earned him a $4 million prize from a Mega Millions drawing came from an unusual source: a fortune cookie. Gabriel Fierro, 60, of Cornelius, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought his ticket for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing online, and he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":765015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}