Fortune Cookies

Millions of fortune cookies or tuiles are manufactured every day. Originally the messages were Chinese sayings, some of which were poorly translated and made no sense. Nowadays, fortune cookie factories employ writers. The cookies often contain lottery numbers, which are generated by a computer. In March 2005, US lottery officials suspected a scam when 110 people claimed the prize of $100,000 as opposed to the usual handful. When they investigated it, they discovered the sequence of