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== Marketing == The message inside may include a list of lucky numbers used by some as [[lottery]] numbers; since relatively few distinct messages are printed, in the recorded case where winning numbers happened to be printed, the lottery had an unexpectedly high number of winners sharing a prize.<ref name="snopes">{{Cite news|url=http://www.snopes.com/luck/cookie.asp|title=Lottery Numbers from Fortune Cookie|date=January 11, 2010|publisher=[[Snopes]]|access-date=May 30, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Authorities briefly investigated Wonton Food in 2005, after 110 Powerball lottery players won about $19 million after using the "lucky numbers" on the back of fortunes.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050512thursday.html | title = Who Needs Giacomo? Bet on the Fortune Cookie | date= May 12, 2005 | access-date = February 2, 2017 | newspaper = The New York Times | author = Jennifer Lee }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://time.com/4645242/chinese-lunar-new-year-rooster-2017-chief-fortune-writer-wonton-food-cookie-factory/ | title = Go Behind the Scenes as Fortune Cookie History Gets Made | date= January 27, 2017 | access-date = February 2, 2017 | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | author = Oliver B. Waxman }}</ref> Fortune cookies are sometimes used for special marketing promotions. For example, the film ''[[Kung Fu Panda 3]]'' was promoted by putting quotations from the protagonist of the film on fortune cookie slips.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fortunecookieadvertising.com/kung-fu-panda-3-fortune-cookies/|title=Kung Fu Panda 3 Fortune Cookies|date=December 5, 2015|work=Fortune Cookie Advertising|access-date=April 10, 2017|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410214143/http://www.fortunecookieadvertising.com/kung-fu-panda-3-fortune-cookies/|archive-date=April 10, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1989, fortune cookies were reportedly imported into [[Hong Kong]] and sold as "genuine American fortune cookies".<ref name="snopes2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/fortune.asp|title=Origin of Fortune Cookies|date=June 9, 2008|publisher=Snopes|access-date=May 30, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Wonton Food attempted to expand its fortune cookie business into China in 1992, but gave up after fortune cookies were considered "too American".<ref name=snopes2 />
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