Fortune Cookie Generator
Every fortune here was written for this page: 264 of them, 66 in each of four tones, none lifted from a cookie list and none carrying a number anybody could play. Choose a tone, say how many to open, and the draw is made without replacement, so one set never hands you the same line twice. The seed beside the result is what makes a set repeatable: type a seed back in with the same tone and the same fortunes come back in the same order, which is how you reprint a sheet you have already cut up. Add your own message and it prints on a slip of its own, with line breaks closed up so it fits and every other character left exactly as you typed it, and Print slips lays the set out 8 to a page with dashed lines to cut along.
Any tone draws from all 4 sets at once. Press Space or New fortunes for another set. Each tone holds 66 of the 264 fortunes and Any draws from all of them, up to 24 at a time. The seed is what makes a set repeatable: type one you used before, up to 24 characters, and the same fortunes come back in the same order. Print slips puts them on paper, 8 to a page with dashed lines to cut along.
Common questions
- How many fortunes are there, and where did they come from?
- 264, all written for this page, 66 in each of four tones: classic, wry, warm and silly. Nothing is taken from a cookie list, a quotation site or another generator, none of them names a person, a place or a brand, and the tone you pick is the part of the set the draw comes from. Any tone draws from all 264.
- Can I get the same fortunes back later?
- Yes. Every set carries a seed, and typing that seed back in with the same tone opens the same fortunes in the same order. A seed can be up to 24 characters, so a word works as well as the number the page gives you. Asking for more fortunes on the same seed keeps the ones you already had at the front and adds to them.
- Are these predictions?
- No. They are jokes and pleasantries, written to be read out loud and then thrown away. Nothing here forecasts anything, none of them says a word about health, money or the law, and none of them carries a number you could play. A fortune cookie slip is a pleasantry, and that is all this page makes.
- How do I print them as slips?
- Press Print slips. The sheet lays the set out 8 to a page with dashed lines to cut along, one sheet of paper per page of slips, and your own message prints on the last one. Nothing else on the page is printed, so you get slips and no furniture around them.
- Can I write my own fortune?
- Yes, up to 120 characters in the message box. Line breaks and doubled spaces are closed up so it fits on one slip, and every other character is printed exactly as you typed it, angle brackets and all. It is treated as text rather than as anything the page might read as an instruction.
- How many can I open at once?
- Up to 24 in one draw, which is three printed pages, or four once your own message is on the end of them. Ask for more than that and the page says so rather than quietly giving you fewer.
- Does anything I type leave my browser?
- No. The fortunes are in the page itself, the draw runs in your browser, and your message and seed stay in this browser. There is no account, nothing is uploaded, and nothing is sent anywhere when you copy or print.
Fortunes are drawn without replacement from 264 messages written for this page, so a draw never repeats itself and the same tone and seed always give the same draw. They are written as jokes: nothing here is a prediction, and nothing here tells you to do anything that matters.