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!

According to practically every single news bulletin throughout the world, The Republic of Greece, AKA, The Hellenic Republic the “cradle of western civilisation,” currently has a bit of a cash flow crisis, is little short of the readies and is struggling to pay its debts! Aren’t we all?

However, being Greek didn’t bring any financial solace either to film maker Costis Mitsotakis, who is the only Greek inhabitant of the Spanish village of Sodeto. This is the tiny village tucked away in the municipality of Alberuela de Tubo, Huesca, Spain where the entire population of 70 households, decided to pool their resources in order to buy tickets for Spain’s biggest lottery – El Gordo and then won first prize – a staggering NINE HUNDRED and TWENTY-THREE MILLION dollars – yes you did read that right $923,000,000 which meant that the minimum every household walked away with was $132,000 apiece!

All except one that is, no prizes for guessing the missed household – right first time – Costis Mitsotakis! Sadly it appears that when his neighbours were going around every house in the village persuading people to buy El Gordo lottery tickets, Mitsotakis, who lives in a barn half a mile outside Sodeto, mistakenly got overlooked.

Fortunately not all is doom and gloom for Mitsotakis, as he had been trying to sell some land without much success, It now appears that after learning of their lottery win, a neighbour called to say he would buy it and now more neighbours have put in offers on the land; however Mitsotakis doesn’t want any bad feelings in such a small village and has refused to get into a bidding war! He sounds like a very nice guy indeed!

Spain is of course noted, amongst other things, for its addiction to big money lotteries and raffles and with just over 1 day to go before the next Spanish Special Millionaire Raffle is due to be drawn, then this weekend is no exception. Up for grabs is a very tasty ONE HUNDRED and TEN MILLION dollars, which should help a little until your next payday! To be in with a chance of winning, you need a ticket and the place to buy a ticket for tomorrow’s Special Millionaire Raffle is right here at WinTrillions!

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!