Trusting a lucky dumpling proved to be a winning strategy in 2005, when 110 people won awards on the Powerball Public Bullies thanks to the numbers printed on the messages.
It seems like a story from a movie, but it really happened. In 2005, 110 Powerball players Awards between 100 thousand and 500 thousand dollars won Each thanks to the lucky numbers printed in the lucky dumplings.
The surprising result of the Powerball multiestal draw of March 30 shocked the employees of the lotterywhich expected only four or five winners based on statistical standards between 10.4 million ticket buyers.
Instead, this number came with almost 20 times, which led to suspecting a Severe system error or even fraud. “Something was wrong; it was out of the kingdom of the possibility,” said Charles Strutt, director of Multi-State Lottery Association.
Determined to discover the anomaly, researchers analyzed the media, including television programs and magazines, in search of a set of numbers disclosed. Despite scouring episodes of “Lost” and “The Young and the Restless,” found no correspondence.
Clarity came when the winners began to complain about their awards on April 1. Several Tennessee players revealed that they had used lucky dumplings numbers. This revelation led the employees of the lottery and journalists to go through Chinese restaurants across the country. The cookies were eventually attributed to the Wonton Food.
The dumplings contained six numbers – five of which coincided with Powerball winning numbers, which gave their six -digit awards. Only the last number40 instead of the 42 Jackpot winner, prevented the winners from dividing the total jackpot of $ 25.5 million. Ironically, the only winner of the main prize was a Tennessee man who had not used the numbers of the lucky dumpling, says.
Derrick Wong, director of sales at Wonton Food, said none of the Queens factory employees who produced the winning dumpling had played on the lottery. The factory produced Daily 4 million dumplingsof which about 97% have a sequence of six numbers.
Before this done, the dumplings were manually selected from 40 sheets of paper taken from a bowl, which generated about 10 000 POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS. Wonton Food later started using computer -generated numbers to avoid future repetitions.
Strutt said that some of the winners had eaten the cookie in the days before the draw, but one of them had saved the winning combination of a dumpling three years before.
As unlikely as it may seem, this story shows that sometimes a dumpling of luck can even live up to your name.
