The future is a mystery. As we cannot be certain about what could happen, we love to get hints and signs from everything around us. That’s when fortune cookies become popular. The origin of these little fortune tellers is uncleared, but it’s believed that they came to the US with Japanese immigrants.

Fortune cookies typically have a mildly sweet vanilla flavor. The crust is folded up to wrap a message inside. Normally, fortune cookies contain a message of positive or general saying; distinct messages are relatively rare. However, there are cases when people get a big surprise from these cookies. Their messages read quite unusual or even sound like a warning sometimes. Here we have 20 of these strange and hilarious fortune cookie messages that will raise your mood. See them in the list below.

#1 I think this is perfect. Two fortunes in one cookie and they couldn’t work together better if they tried.

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#2 I… Should I call a doctor?

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#3 Well-played fortune cookie. Well-played indeed.

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#4 This message tried to understand what the person reading it might be going through

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#5 The writer of this fortune cookie did not quite seem to have understood the format

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#6 These two fortune cookie messages worked in tandem

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#7 Snarky: This message also did not engage with the premise of a fortune cookie

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#8 This cookie offered apparently contrary pieces of advice

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#9 Profound: This message aspired to give life advice but is probably only useful in a very specific situation

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#10 Well said, fortune cookie

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#11 This message invoked former US President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address

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#12 OMG!!

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#13 Am I a joke to you?!

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#14 My 10-year-old son needed help reading his fortune cookie…

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#15 What the…?!

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#16 The statement on this cookie may not stand up to academic scrutiny

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#17 I don’t think that is all I need

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#18 This diner would have gone home wondering if a nasty surprise was coming

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#19 Did I just get insulted by a Hamlet-quoting fortune cookie?

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#20 My ironic fortune cookie.

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