A Bronx great-grandmother played the fortune cookie lotto numbers that most New Yorkers throw out with their lo mein scraps — and she hit it big for $2 million.
Emma Duvoll, 75, who collected the beefy payout Thursday, decided to use the numbers that came inside her dessert because she read that it paid off for others in the past.
“I heard about it once, a long time ago,” Duvoll told The Post.
“You try anything once. And this time it worked!”
The grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of one has previously tried family birthdays and anniversaries with no luck.
Her good fortune came from a Chinese food order that she and her sons grabbed at Sammy’s Noodle Shop & Grill in Greenwich Village — which they ate on the way to a family visit in upstate Pine Bush.
Duvoll kept the fortune cookie slip, and played the numbers at a Hanneford’s grocery store.
She hit the numbers 5, 12, 15, 27 and 38, but missed out on the Powerball, 7. Matching five numbers won $1 million, and because Duvoll shelled out an extra $1 for the Power Play option, her payout increased to $2 million.
The jackpot that day was $193 million.
“I was surprised, but pleased,” Duvoll said of the Feb. 1 win. Her lump sum payment was $1,246,085 after taxes.
Duvoll was born in Switzerland and moved to the US with her husband Dwight, 86. They settled in the Bronx, where they owned a delicatessen and raised their two boys in an apartment in Fordham.
The now-retired couple was watching at home when the Powerball numbers were picked.
“You check the numbers and check again, just to make sure,” she recalled. “You don’t believe it in the beginning.”
“We didn’t tell anybody,” Duvoll said. “I put it [the winning ticket] in a safe place.”
She doesn’t expect the windfall to change her life.
“We’re very content they way we are,” Duvoll said. “It will probably go into savings and investments.”
Duvoll has siblings still living in Switzerland and tries to make an annual visit. “We will probably go this year,” she said.
Sammy’s Noodle Shop cashier Grace Lee was happy to hear the news.
“Right now we believe in fortune cookies,” she said.
“We decided now to play fortune cookie numbers every day,” said hostess Carmen Kong. “I’m happy for her.”
At the Hannaford’s where Duvoll bought her ticket, customer service rep Debby said she recognized the older woman’s face on the news, but doesn’t know if she sold her the winning ticket.
“She’s a really nice lady and I’m very happy to hear she won,” she said.
Additional reporting by Erin M. Calabrese in Pine Bush