He played figures found in a "fortune cookie" and won more than $ 300 million in the lottery.

It was a "fortune cookie". A retired American $ 344.6 million earned Thanks to the numbers written on the paper of one those cookies that offer Asian restaurants at the end of the meal.

According to Charles W. Jackson, he asked his eight-year-old granddaughter a few years ago to dine at a Vietnamese restaurant. .

"For a few years, I played the same numbers," continued Jackson, at a press conference in Raleigh, NC, where he received his award for the Powerball draw. Saturday.

"I did not expect to win, I'm just lucky," said the man who thought at first that he "had just" won a prize of 50,000 $ because he had not read all the numbers.

Jackson chose to collect the price in one payment, so it will take 223 million dollars.

The new billionaire has not yet had the idea of ​​changing luck. "I do not know what to do with that. I hope I do not change much"he said."I will still put on my jeansmaybe a new one, "he said with a laugh.

Jackson promised to give some of the money to a pediatric hospital and a veterans' badociation. He also said that he would honor a pact with his brother: if one of them won the lottery, I had to give him a million dollars other.

The pensioner, who had a military goods store, said he was considering trip to Vietnam with his wife.