A Kentucky woman is celebrating a $50,000 lottery prize — and it's all because of her daughter’s fortune cookie. Kathy Bailey ...

A Kentucky woman used the numbers from inside a fortune cookie to play the lottery and ended up winning $50,000.

Kathy Bailey and her family had just finished eating Chinese food, she told lottery officials, when she decided to use the ...

A Lexington woman won big after fortune cookie numbers inspired her to play Kentucky Lottery games online. Kathy Bailey and ...

A Kentucky woman won $50,000 playing the lottery, and she did so with help of numbers on the back of a fortune cookie.

Ever wonder how messages get inserted into fortune cookies? They aren’t actually tucked inside, so much as laid on top of the cookie. Fortune cookies are circular and flat when ...

Kathy Bailey won $50,000 playing the Kentucky's Lottery's Golden Snake Triple Play game. The instant play game is available ...

Seconds later, a $50,000 win appeared on her screen. The odds of winning that prize with a $5 wager are one in 2,000,000.

"I almost always choose the Fortune Cookie Bonus," said Bailey. "I just happened to choose that one. I just hit it and there it went." Moments later, a $50,000 win appeared on her screen.