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!

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!

Every Friday Bert and Jack played a weekly game of golf until suddenly the arrangement stopped. “Why don’t you play golf with Jack any more?” asked Bert’s wife. Bert replied: “Would you play with someone who kicks his ball out of a bunker when no one is looking, who deliberately coughs halfway through his opponent’s backswing and who lies about his handicap?” “I guess not,” said the wife. “Well,” said Bert, “Neither will Jack!”

Well today’s Friday, the weekend start’s here and you don’t need to either play golf or fall out with your golfing buddies to play for the big money lottery jackpots just ripe for the picking between now and tomorrow evening.

Today there’s:

• USA – Mega Millions – $42 million
• Europe – EuroMillions – $36 million
• France – France Lotto – $16.6 million

Tomorrow there’s:

• Spain – Special Draw – $107.8 million
• Italy – Super Enalotto – $67.7 million
• USA – Powerball – $66 million
• USA – Indiana Hoosier Lotto – $29.5 million
• Canada – Lotto 6/49 – $15 million

Remember you can play all of these lotteries together with many other of the world’s biggest and richest draws and raffles right here at WinTrillions. All you need to do is choose your games, pick your numbers, tell us what they are, wait for the results and collect your money!

A 16 member group of Californian school clerical workers who won a $12 million lottery jackpot last February have struck the mother-lode again inside 12 months to bag their second lottery win worth $262,743 after matching all 5 main numbers, 24 – 30 – 48 – 51 – 56, in the Dec 2 Mega Millions draw. The syndicate collected their latest prize on Friday but didn’t have that all important Mega number 45, which would have netted them the Mega Millions jackpot worth $75 million.

There were no winners for the Dec 2 $75 million jackpot until Dec 27 when it was finally taken by a resident from New York but not until repeated rollovers had hiked the top prize to a massive $206 million.

Once again the old “lightning cannot strike the same place twice” myth is blown apart. After all if the space shuttle launch pad gets hit repeatedly, New York’s Empire State Building – about 25 strikes each year, even Shenandoah National Park ranger Roy Sullivan who earned his entry in Guinness World Records by being whacked by lightning no less than 7 times during his lifetime then why not repeated big-time prize hits by previous lottery winners? The word on the street is the Californian school workers are not about to stop playing!

The next Mega Millions draw will be played on Tuesday Jan 10 with a $33 million prize pot. Also being drawn on Tuesday is Italy’s SuperEnalotto Lotto with $65 million up for grabs and Powerball with $54 million so there’s a nice little treasure trove just waiting for you, providing, of course you’ve got a ticket. As always, the best place to buy a ticket is right here at WinTrillions, where you can buy tickets for the biggest and richest lotteries in the world!