Even if you're not one to gamble, you might want to try this lottery-ticket tactic out. In Boca Raton, FL, one man walked away with $7 million after playing numbers from a fortune cookie in his local lottery.

According to the Orlando Sun Sentinel, 66-year-old Richard Davis couldn't decide on his lottery ticket numbers, so he chose the series of "lucky numbers" printed on the slip inside his fortune cookie. The winning series was 16, 26, 29, 39, 45, and 46. 

This crazy hunch somehow paid off, landing him the $10 million jackpot that was drawn on Aug. 22. Just this week he travelled to the state's lottery headquarters in Tallahassee, where he opted for the one-time lump some of $7 million. 

Apparently this unusual sweet scheme works. In the last two years, two others have taken home cash prizes after picking numbers based on their fortune cookies—including a California woman who scored $400,000 in the California Mega Millions and a New York woman who won the $2 million Powerball prize. Both women mysteriously won thanks to the treat back in March 2014. 

Davis is no stranger to this fortune-cookie gambling. After picking up a handful of cookies at a Chinese restaurant in North Carolina, he often plays the same five sets of numbers from said treats. While he typically sticks to playing big-paying, multi-state games with jackpots in the hundreds of millions, he chose the Sunshine State lotto this time around because it had much better odds (1 in 23 million for FL versus 1 in 175 million for Powerball). His winning ticket was purchased at Publix in Boca Raton, which received a $50,000 commission for selling the prized paper.

So maybe we should all start stock-piling fortune cookies from restaurants and delivery orders. Otherwise you're basically throwing out a chance at a couple million.

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