Five expressive aspiring writers brainstorm fortunes around a bakery table covered with golden fortune cookies and blank paper slips while a smiling host looks on.

The Fortune Cookie Writers’ Contest

The Golden Crumb Bakery invited five aspiring writers to compete for a place in its fortune-cookie lineup. Their entries ranged from encouraging to wonderfully useless, including “Your missing sock knows what it did.” Each writer submitted a different fortune style, celebrated with a different snack, and earned a different final ranking. Use the clues to uncover every result.

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Created by Bret Bordwell ·

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