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!

In 1997 Clarence Jackson, a devoutly religious Mormon, who will turn 40 later this year, hit the headlines after he submitted his winning $5.8 MILLION lottery ticket 3 days PAST the claim deadline – needless to say his clam was refused and sadly Jackson was never awarded his lottery jackpot win!

After lottery officials refused to bend the rules on the prize payout – the “oh no he can’t – oh yes he can” debate went right on up to the Connecticut House of Representatives and in May 1997, they voted retroactively to change the lottery date deadline and award Jackson the money; however – the state Senate NEVER approved the bill and Jackson NEVER got a cent; even though the House of Representatives actually voted approval in two further debates!

Well 15 years later and now something of a Connecticut mini-celebrity, Jackson has become personal friends with politicians of all political persuasions and although sadly still not a millionaire he is now thinking about running for the Connecticut State Legislature – the very same organisation that has, thus far thwarted his millionaire dream! Now that’s a neat little twist on the “if you can’t beat ‘em – join ‘em” ploy!

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Well as well all now know the pumped up Powerball lottery definitely came up trumps last Saturday and delivered a massive $336.4 million jackpot to an as yet unnamed Rhode Island ticket holder. Just to remind you what the makeover means for Powerball aficionados – the average jackpot pool rises to $255 million; the guaranteed starting jackpot doubles from $20 million to $40 million, match 5 main numbers without the Powerball prize, you’ll win a $1 million, take the Power Play option and your $1 million immediately doubles to $2 million; at the same time the odds of hitting a big win prize improve from 1 in 35 to 1 in 31.8!

Whilst Saturday’s jackpot turned out to be the sixth-largest lottery win in U.S. history – the big question of the day is how high could a rollover jackpot go? Here’s a clue, if last Saturday’s Powerball draw had not tuned in a winner then the rollover jackpot would have hit a COLOSSAL $415 MILLION this week!

Big jackpots simply attract record ticket sales and it would now appear that anything is possible; which means that the newly pimped Powerball draw could actually see the jackpot hit a $1 BILLION! A BILLION greenbacks – now that’s just got to be pretty serious wedge in anyone’s book!

Of course just as always you need a ticket – it’s the only sure fire way to pull a jackpot in any lottery, anywhere in the world – the place to buy that ticket is right here at WinTrillions. The next Powerball game is tomorrow and it starts at a mere $40 MILLION; but if you want to try your luck today then Italy’s Super Enalotto has $83 MILLION up for grabs and the USA’s Mega Millions has $51 MILLION which Lady Luck might have earmarked just for you!

What’s that old saying – “all good things come to those who wait?” Well it seems that the Hoosier Lotto has been having something of a dry spell lately, in fact it was Wednesday Jun. 24, 2011 when the last big prize jackpot worth $24 million was taken by Indianapolis residents Tom and Gayle Fox, which makes the current “no big winner” spell the third-longest jackpot run in the game’s history.

On the upside it does mean that the first prize jackpot in tomorrow’s Hoosier Lotto draw has now reached the dizzy heights of THIRTY – THREE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND dollars! The Hoosier Lottery began selling lottery tickets on October 13, 1989, after a majority of Indiana citizens voted “yes” on a 1988 voter referendum and the draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday. The jackpot starts at 1 million dollars and is increased after each draw if there is no jackpot winner; to win you just need to match 6 numbers from 1 to 48 and with just 5 prize divisions it’s one of the only games where you’ll win with just 2 matches!

There’s two ways to find out whether the Hoosier jackpot drought will end tomorrow; the first way is to simply do nothing and when the result is drawn if there’s a 6 number match then you won’t hold the winning ticket and you very definitely won’t be $33,500,000 richer! The second way is to actually buy a Hoosier Lotto ticket and when the result is drawn if the 6 numbers match those on the ticket then all the good things you’ve been waiting for could well be yours!

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