Let me introduce you to the type of musical-comedy theatrical production called pantomime. Most likely to be found in the United Kingdom and usually performed at Christmas with plots based loosely on traditional children’s stories such as Cinderella, Aladdin and Snow White. British pantomime is aimed squarely at family audiences, nearly always has a hero and a villain and incorporates song, dance, slapstick, in-jokes, topical references and much audience participation.

Whenever the villain shows up on stage the audience is always encouraged to boo and hiss; even to shout out as loudly and noisily as possible, “He’s behind you!” to warn the poor innocent victims of their impending peril. One other must-have is the contradictory interlude, when one of the actors makes a statement which must be diametrically opposed by the audience. The banter goes like this – actor says “…….Oh yes it is – Los Angeles is definitely in Florida!” the audience responds by shouting, “Oh, no it isn’t!” The actor immediately replies “Oh, yes it is!” Followed by “Oh, no it isn’t!” from the audience and so on; each time the responses get louder and louder! Much mirth and merriment and a good time had by all!

Well you might ask, what’s this got to do with last week’s record breaking Mega Millions jackpot? Here’s the plot – last Friday a new world record jackpot worth $640 MILLION was won by 3 WINNERS from Maryland, Kansas and Illinois respectively!

It’s alleged that one of the WINNERS from Maryland; a worker at the local McDonald’s restaurant originally claimed that she was one of the three jackpot winners. Great joy and double choccie shakes all round; particularly as it’s alleged the claimant was part of a McDonald’s co-worker syndicate! Queue audience – loud cheering and clapping! Now bombshell statement from the “ticket holder” who went from “hero” to “villain” in one sentence by announcing that she was indeed part of the McDonald’s group; but she had purchased the winning ticket quite independently of her co-workers and the money was all hers and hers alone! Queue audience – boos and hisses!

When pressed on the point the “winner” retreated further saying that she thought some of the numbers were familiar but refused to show the winning ticket, claiming she had secreted it elsewhere and would produce it in the fullness of time! Queue loud audience – “Oh yes she’s won – oh no she hasn’t!” banter and nobody quite sure of what’s happening! What a plot – the woman’s Attorney doesn’t know whether his client has the winning ticket and Maryland Lottery officials say no one has yet claimed the record jackpot but they plan a news conference later today (Thursday).

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Phew – what a week that was! A world gripped by lottery fever – frenetic last minute ticket buying – a Mega Millions lottery jackpot that jumped nearly $100 MILLION from an estimated $356 MILLION last Monday to a new world record of $640 MILLION and 3 jackpot WINNERS from Maryland, Kansas and Illinois respectively!

Another 161 players: 1 from Arizona, 1 from Arkansas, 29 from California, 2 from Colorado, 1 from Connecticut, 1 from Delaware, 6 from Georgia, 2 from Idaho, 11 from Illinois, 1 from Indiana, 1 from Kansas, 4 from Kentucky, 2 from Louisiana, 4 from Maryland, 5 from Massachusetts, 6 from Michigan, 4 from Minnesota, 1 from Missouri, 5 from New Jersey, 1 from New Mexico, 17 from New York, 4 from North Carolina, 10 from Ohio, 1 from Oklahoma, 5 from Pennsylvania, 1 from Rhode Island, 1 from South Carolina, 1 from South Dakota, 2 from Tennessee, 14 from Texas, 5 from Virginia, 5 from Washington, 1 from West Virginia, 3 from Wisconsin, narrowly missed a slice of the jackpot cake by matching the five main numbers: 02 – 04 – 23 – 38 – 46 but passed on the number 23 Mega Ball; still they did manage to blag at least $227,000 apiece as consolation.

Another 897 players pocketed at least $10,000 each for matching 4 mains and the Mega Ball. The remainder of the available prize pot was shared between 16,351,557 other Mega Millions players with prizes ranging from $2 up to $160.

So what happens next? Well the Mega Millions jackpot is reset to its starting point of $12 MILLION ready for the next draw tomorrow and the whole cycle starts all over again. Whilst last Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot was indeed big, don’t forget there are a couple of other big, big lottery jackpots just waiting for a winner this week. Right alongside tomorrows Mega Millions is Italy’s SuperEnalotto with a jackpot standing at ONE HUNDRED and FIVE MILLION bucks, EuroMillions with a TWENTY EIGHT MILLION dollar jackpot and on Wednesday there’s the USA’s Powerball draw with SEVENTY MILLION greenbacks in the pot.

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As they say in all the best circles – “It ain’t over ‘till the fat lady sings” – well her song is now sung – the game has been played – we have a result, and we have least one, Mega Millions jackpot WINNER! The last few days has seen a Mega Millions ticket buying frenzy as players from all over the world turned their cash into Mega Millions lottery tickets hoping that Lady Luck would give them the wink that the world record SIX HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION US dollars was theirs and in the bag.

Well if you’ve got a Mega Millions ticket with the numbers: 02 – 04 – 23 – 38 – 46 and Mega Ball 23, printed across the front and it was valid for last night’s draw then Lady Luck very definitely came up trumps and I expect you had a bit of a sleepless night taking in the fact that you’re now amongst the world’s super rich!

What we do know is that there is at least one WINNING ticket holder, purchased in Maryland USA. So if you haven’t yet checked your mail box or your tickets then get on the case – dig them out from those “safe” hiding places and if you’ve got a match then – how can I put this – YOU’VE WON!

Just a reminder that there’s still a massive amount of jackpot cash waiting to taken later today – there’s Italy’s SuperEnalotto worth $105 MILLION and the USA’s Powerball with $60 MILLION in the pot and there’s still time to get a slice of the action! You can buy a ticket for all of the weekend’s lotteries, right here at WinTrillions, just click the links and you too could be a multi-millionaire by bedtime tonight!

It just goes to show what a couple days and frenetic lottery ticket buying fever does for jackpots – on Wednesday the forecast for today’s Mega Millions jackpot was expected to reach an unbelievable $476 MILLION – a new world lottery record! Well it appears that lottery tickets are flying out of the print terminals faster than green grass through a goose which means that the jackpot for today’s Mega Millions draw has been revised upwards and has now reached a staggering, $540,000,000 – that’s FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION dollars!

FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION bucks! DING DONG – that might just be enough to pay for a full tank of gasoline, with maybe a bit left over for your electric bill and a small contribution towards your credit card account; well perhaps I’m a touch optimistic with the credit card bit – a bit of lottery fever and you see how easy it is to get carried away!

I guess we also need to revise the size of the dollar stack – if $476 MILLION dollars piled on top of each other makes a stack 34.4 miles high then $540 million bucks stands another 2.5 miles taller to reach 36.9 miles into the sky. Now that really is reaching for the stars!

Well you’ll be pleased to know there’s still time to get in on the Mega Millions action; the good news is you don’t have to wait in any of the long queues at lottery vendors to get your ticket for tonight’s draw – you can play right now, right here at WinTrillions just click the links, pick your numbers, sit back and enjoy the ride and who know by bedtime tonight you could be FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION dollars richer!