May 24 (UPI) --A Virginia woman used the numbers from inside a fortune cookie to play Powerball and won a $50,000 prize. Tierra Barley told Virginia Lottery officials she always uses the set of ...

A man from North Carolina who placed his lottery chances on a series of numbers from a fortune cookie has his granddaughter to thank for making him hundreds of millions of dollars richer.

Tierra Barley, of Henrico, Virginia, plays the Powerball lottery game with numbers she found in a fortune cookie, she told the Virginia Lottery's website. On May 8, five of those numbers came up ...