According to Woody Allen, “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” So – do you have a EuroMillions ticket with the numbers 3 – 15 – 17 – 28 – 33 and lucky stars 2 and 4 lined up across the front, and valid for last night’s draw? If you do – then prepare yourself, as they ‘say in all the very best fairy stories, to “live happily ever after” because you’ve just copped yesterday’s first prize EuroMillions jackpot worth a stunning $71,141,917 – that’s SEVENTY-ONE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED and FORTY-ONE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED and SEVENTEEN dollars.

Another 5 players matched 5 mains and 1 star to take $178,038 apiece; 11 players matched 5 mains to pocket $48,556 each and 88 more players pulled in $3,035 each for matching 4 mains and both lucky stars!

Seventy – one million dollars is enough booty to buy nearly 3,000 compact cars; if stacked up, the pile of greenbacks would meaasure about 40 feet high, 80 feet long and 48 feet wide – as a single stack of dollar bills it would stand 24,000 feet high! To quote Michael Caine, “not a lot of people know that”, so file this stuff away into the receesses of your mind and be ready to wow your audience at your next bar quiz night!

The big money lottery games to look out for today are Powerball with a first prize worth $250,000,000 and the Indiana Hoosier Lotto with $33,000,000 up for grabs. Of course to get a slice of the action you’ll need a ticket, and the place to get that is right here at WinTrillions, where you can play the biggest and richest lotteries in the world!

Here’s last weekend’s breaking news: The Queen is still Head of the UK and Commonwealth, the US Government didn’t resign, Greece wasn’t declared bankrupt and there’s been no life on Mars for at least the last 600 million years! I must report that my local streets were completely free from snow and ice, the traffic didn’t grind to a halt or become gridlocked on the dry roads, the sky got dark after the sun set, and NOBODY won a first prize jackpot in any of the world’s richest lotteries!

So to make up here’s a couple of topical news headlines: “War Dims Hope for Peace” – “Cold Weather Linked to Temperatures” – I’ll leave you to write your own stories!

On the upside no first prize jackpot winners means more rollovers! Winning a rollover means, in reality, you get to take home, huge, massive, GIGANTIC amounts of loot just as soon as your chosen numbers match those drawn from the lottery machine. Now that’s what I call news!

The next big jackpot day is tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb, 7. A day in history that was and will be noted for several memorable moments: Feb, 7, 1891 – The Great Blizzard began; Feb, 7, 1904 – Baltimore caught fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks), Feb, 7, 1974 – Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” opened in movie theatres and Feb, 7, 2012 will be the day that the jackpot for the Powerball lottery hits TWO-HUNDRED and FIFTY MILLION dollars, right alongside SuperEnalotto; jackpot SEVENTY-NINE MILLION, EuroMillions Lottery; jackpot SIXTY-NINE MILLION and MegaMillions Lotto; jackpot THIRTY-TWO MILLION!

Hit a jackpot by the end of Tuesday evening and one thing’s for certain, you’ll very definitely make your own news; but only if you’ve got a ticket! As always you can buy a lottery ticket for any of or all of these games, plus many more of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries from right here at WinTrillions – just follow the links and be ready to fend off the newshounds and paparazzi on Tuesday!

A passenger train is creeping along, slowly; finally it creaks to a halt. A passenger sees the conductor walking by outside. “What’s going on?” she yells out the window. “Cow on the track!” replies the conductor. Ten minutes later, the train resumes its slow pace. Within five minutes, however, it stops again – the woman sees the same conductor walk by again. She leans out the window and yells, “What happened – did we catch up with the cow again?”

A slow train is definitely not the best way to describe the mouth-watering lottery rollover jackpots lining up for kick-off over the next three days. Later today, there’s Super Enalotto: jackpot SEVENTY EIGHT MILLION; tomorrow there’s EuroMillions: jackpot FIFTY-NINE MILLION and Mega Millions: jackpot TWENTY-THREE MILLION; on Saturday there’s Powerball: jackpot TWO HUNDRED MILLION; Indiana Hoosier: Jackpot THIRTY-TWO MILLION; Brazil’s Mega Sena: Jackpot TWENTY-SIX MILLION; German Lotto: Jackpot TWENTY-FIVE MILLION and the next Spanish Millionaire Raffle with a ONE HUNDRED and TEN MILLION jackpot!

That little lot added together makes a grand total of FIVE HUNDRED and FIFTY-THREE MILLION greenbacks from just 8 lottery games. Over HALF A BILLION bucks; that’s pretty serious wedge by anyone’s book and might be almost enough to put a smile on your bank manager’s face (I did say ALMOST)!

Now the only similarity between the slow train and a life changing lottery win is you need a ticket for both. The good news is you don’t have to look all over the place to find out where to buy one – if you’re reading this you’re already found the place, right here at WinTrillions – just follow the links and you’re sure to be on the train – win all of the jackpots and you can BUY the train!

Here’s something to get you thinking: if you lose a hundred bucks you’ll probably feel a bit hacked off; however should you WIN a hundred you’ll no doubt feel pretty good! Now the problem is this; if you’ve just lost the $100 the feelings you have about losing it, hack you off TWICE AS MUCH as any excitement you feel from winning the $100! Is that heavy, or what? This phenomenon is known universally as “loss aversion!”

Still need to be convinced? Toss a coin – heads you win a $100; tails you lose a $100. If you’re not comfortable with a straight 50 / 50, win / lose choice, then decide the biggest amount you ARE comfortable losing? To measure your degree of loss aversion, just divide $100 by your chosen amount.

Now that’s pretty much what we do whenever we decide to buy a lottery ticket, except we don’t do it scientifically! Most of us would probably be very uncomfortable about buying one million greenbacks worth of lottery tickets on the possibility of winning a multi-million jackpot, always assuming you had a spare million in the first place, but will quite readily spend one dollar on a lottery ticket to win the same jackpot, simply because one dollar is what we ARE comfortable with. Sociologists and anthropologists reckon loss aversion has helped humans survive in earlier environments, when the opportunity for gain by hunting down mega-beasts to eat was perceived to be far greater that any potential danger arising from the hunt itself!

So there we have it – if ever proof was needed – playing the lottery is obviously in our human DNA – so what are you waiting for? Never mind “mega-beasts” there are some “mega-million” jackpots up for grabs this very week, including Powerball, Super Enalotto, Indiana Hoosier, and EuroMillions with a collective total of TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHT SEVEN MILLION dollars between them, and that’s just from 4 lotteries – the only requisite is a ticket and you can get one of those right here at WinTrillions, where you can play the world’s biggest and richest lotteries, without ever leaving your personal comfort zone or having to hunt down or be eaten by a mega-beast!