You must remember the song “Rainy Night in Georgia”, written by Tony Joe White way back in 1962 which became an instant hit for R&B vocalist Brook Benton in the spring of 1970. Well let me tell you the rain in Georgia has stopped, the sun’s about to shine and a whole new way of life beckons for one or more Georgia residents after matching the numbers 10 – 22 – 24 – 36 – 49 and Mega Ball 33 in last evening’s MegaMillions draw to take the first prize jackpot – a staggering SEVENTY-ONE MILLION dollars! That’s the highest MegaMillions jackpot payout since Dec. 27 when husband and wife Daniel and Christine Bruckner from San Jose, California hit the New Year running after nailing the $206 million top prize. Ten ticket holders; 2 from California, 2 from Illinois, 1 from Kentucky, 1 from Massachusetts, 2 from Michigan, 1 from Oregon, 1 from Pennsylvania matched the 5 main numbers to pull in up to $250,000 apiece and another twenty-two ticket holders grabbed themselves up to $16,000 each by matching 4 mains. Just in case you didn’t already know on Jan. 24, 0041, the Roman Emperor and cruel despot Caligula was assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards: on Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall found gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California and on Jan. 24, 1976, Cleveland Cavaliers beat Milwaukee by 43 points (132 – 89) – so, I guess, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012 will now hold special significance for a whole bunch of yesterday’s lottery winners! The next Mega Millions draw is on Friday with a starting pot of $12 million; but before then, in just a few hours time, the beefed up Powerball draw takes place and there’s a ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY MILLION dollar jackpot! Remember, you can buy your tickets for MegaMillions and Powerball as well as many other of the world’s biggest lotteries right here at WinTrillions – just follow the links and you’re in the game!

The plot thickens! You may remember that the day before last New Year’s Eve, with less than 2 hours to spare before the claim deadline of 4 p.m. was due expire, lawyers acting on behalf the unnamed winning ticket holders finally made it to the Iowa Lottery offices to stake their multi-million dollar Hot Lotto jackpot claim drawn the previous Dec 29th 2010. At the time, Iowa Lottery officials stated that they would not release the prize money until they met with and could verify the identities and contact information of the person(s) who bought the ticket at a Des Moines gas station in December 2010, and anyone else who possessed it between then and its Dec. 29 arrival at lottery headquarters. However, during a meeting last week with lottery investigators, the claimants lawyers refused to answer questions about the ticket’s chain of custody and have now been given until 3 p.m. this Friday to reveal the true identity of the winner or winners or the jackpot payment will be denied. However the intransience doesn’t appear to lie with the Iowa Lottery who quite openly says, “show us the story and we’ll show you the money.” Apparently attempting to hide the winner(s) identity is a classic example of what a “prohibited player” may do to go about claiming a prize. “Prohibited players” include employees and contractors of the lottery, their relatives and anyone under 21, including anyone who illegally possesses the ticket particularly in this instance as the Lottery has received several claims the ticket was stolen. So it looks like a soap opera “cliff-hanger” par excellence – watch this space to find out how the plot unfurls! Remember you can buy lottery tickets for Hot Lotto as well as for many other of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries and raffles right here at WinTrillions, what’s more you won’t ever have to worry about missing a result or losing your ticket or having it stolen, as we write your name across the top of every ticket you buy; send you a scanned copy, keep it safely and securely on your behalf and email you with the result!

The plot thickens! You may remember that the day before last New Year’s Eve, with less than 2 hours to spare before the claim deadline of 4 p.m. was due expire, lawyers acting on behalf the unnamed winning ticket holders finally made it to the Iowa Lottery offices to stake their multi-million dollar Hot Lotto jackpot claim drawn the previous Dec 29th 2010. At the time, Iowa Lottery officials stated that they would not release the prize money until they met with and could verify the identities and contact information of the person(s) who bought the ticket at a Des Moines gas station in December 2010, and anyone else who possessed it between then and its Dec. 29 arrival at lottery headquarters. However, during a meeting last week with lottery investigators, the claimants lawyers refused to answer questions about the ticket’s chain of custody and have now been given until 3 p.m. this Friday to reveal the true identity of the winner or winners or the jackpot payment will be denied. However the intransience doesn’t appear to lie with the Iowa Lottery who quite openly says, “show us the story and we’ll show you the money.” Apparently attempting to hide the winner(s) identity is a classic example of what a “prohibited player” may do to go about claiming a prize. “Prohibited players” include employees and contractors of the lottery, their relatives and anyone under 21, including anyone who illegally possesses the ticket particularly in this instance as the Lottery has received several claims the ticket was stolen. So it looks like a soap opera “cliff-hanger” par excellence – watch this space to find out how the plot unfurls! Remember you can buy lottery tickets for Hot Lotto as well as for many other of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries and raffles right here at WinTrillions, what’s more you won’t ever have to worry about missing a result or losing your ticket or having it stolen, as we write your name across the top of every ticket you buy; send you a scanned copy, keep it safely and securely on your behalf and email you with the result!

That’s it – sold out – done and dusted – there’s no more room in the inn – the final ticket out of 500,000 originally on offer for the 13th running of today’s (Dec 31) Pennsylvania Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle has now been sold. The Millionaire Raffle will be drawn at 1 minute to 7 this evening in a live televised show which will see the creation of four brand new millionaires with a $1 million apiece, 4 second prize winners with $100,000 each, 100 third place winners with $1,000 each and 5,892 fourth place players who will pocket $100 each. If you did miss out on the Pennsylvania Lottery Millionaire Raffle, don’t despair as there’s still time to buy a ticket for Spain’s next big raffle – El Nino, the second most important draw in the Spanish Lottery draw calendar, which will be drawn on Jan 6 and has a touch over $1 BILLION in the prize pot which will be a very nice start to 2012, but only if you’ve got a ticket – but remember there’s only a finite number of tickets available – “once they’re gone; they’re gone!” You can buy lottery tickets for El Nino, as well as many other of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries and raffles from right here at WinTrillions. HAPPY NEW YEAR – from ALL at WinTrillions!

The results of the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle are now in – if you’ve got prize raffle ticket numbers 00089418, 00497859, 00403200 and 00319954 then congratulations are well in order, as you’ve just nailed a sweet one million bucks apiece and the televised Pennsylvania Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle has lived up to its promise of creating four brand new “New Year” millionaires. Now that’s what I call a New Year a resolution! Also true to its word, if you’ve got Pennsylvania Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle tickets with the numbers 00112714, 00203454, 00030168 and 00138754 then your share of the prize pot is a very useful $100,000 each; a 100 third place winners each got $1,000 and another 5,892 fourth place players each got $100 – altogether not a bad start to 2012 – long may it continue. Just a reminder – there’s still time to buy a ticket for Spain’s next big raffle – El Nino, the second most important draw in the Spanish Lottery draw calendar, which plays on Friday Jan 6 and there’s a touch over $1 BILLION in the prize pot but only if you’ve got a ticket! You can buy lottery tickets for El Nino, as well as many other of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries and raffles from right here at WinTrillions.

The chance of winning a life-changing bumper lottery jackpot is the optimistic expectation for cash-strapped families across Britain as sales of National Lottery tickets hit record highs, and follows Camelot’s strategy for responsible growth by encouraging many people to play but to actually spend relatively small amounts. UK National Lottery operator Camelot revealed yesterday that lottery ticket sales were up a fifth to £3.2 billion (US$5 billion) in the six months to 24 September, marking the group’s best ever interim period and ranking Camelot as the seventh largest lottery in the world in terms of sales The lottery has created 2,700 millionaires and multi-millionaires to date, including Colin and Chris Weir from Largs in Scotland who won a mind-blowing £161 million (US$254 million) in the EuroMillions lottery in August and promptly entered the record books by becoming Scotland’s biggest ever lottery winners. Camelot also revealed that the rise in sales had led to increased returns of £918.3 million (US$1.4 billion) to good causes, up from £784.8 million (US$1.2 billion) last year. Since launching the UK National Lottery in 1994 Camelot has paid out £27 billion (US$42.6 billion) for good causes and £40 billion (US$63 billion) in prize money. You can play the UK Lottery, as well as the biggest and richest lotteries from around the world right here at WinTrillions – it couldn’t be easier – just click the links and you could be on millionaire’s row by tonight! Why not join WinTrillions on Facebook and follow us on Twitter – that way you’ll always be up-to-date with what’s going on in the lottery world.

“I looked at my calendar and noticed that its days are numbered!” Some serious food for thought comes out of that phrase; feel free to casually drop it into the conversation with your buddies down at the local bar and you’ll probably get voted philosopher of the year. On the other hand you might just want to spread the news that the EuroMillions Lottery is guaranteeing to create 50 overnight millionaires before Christmas. The millionaire fest starts next Friday with a special EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle that will guarantee 18 lucky players a cool £1 million (US£1.58 million) each. The raffle will then continue its life-changing ways for one player every Tuesday and Friday until December 23, when another 25 EuroMillions ticketholders will be given an early Christmas present they will not forget. Fifty new millionaires before Christmas – that’s definitely a conversation stopper! EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle is a UK-only game and is part of the EuroMillions Lottery. Players have to match the three raffle letters and six raffle numbers printed at the bottom of their lottery ticket – one ticketholder is picked in each twice weekly raffle with a guaranteed £1 million (US£1.58 million) for every winner. Remember you don’t have to either live in the UK or even visit the UK to get in on the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle; you can buy your lottery ticket right here at WinTrillions, where you can also buy tickets for the world’s biggest and richest lotteries. Why not join WinTrillions on Facebook and follow us on Twitter – that way you’ll always be up-to-date with what’s going on in the lottery world.

If you’re the one that matched 9 -16 – 17 – 28 – 30 – 11 in last Saturday night’s Powerball draw then congratulations are well in order as you’re now the newest member of the world’s multi-millionaire’s club, with a $59,900,000 instant fortune. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until the Powerball offices open later today to validate your claim; and then it’s party, party, party! In addition to the jackpot winner – 5 people matched five white numbers, 66 matched 4 whites and the Powerball and another 1,712 matched 4 whites – altogether 822,590 people walked away with a prize. Powerball combines a large jackpot game and a cash game; it’s drawn every Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Powerball is a two drum game – five balls are picked from a drum containing 59 white balls and one ball is picked out of the second drum containing 39 red balls; draws take place at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida – match all six and your life will never be the same again. You can play Powerball from anywhere on planet Earth without ever having to leave your house and without having to visit or live in the USA – just click the links and play right here at WinTrillions. As soon as you’ve made your picks we’ll send one of our agents straight down to a local Powerball lottery store to buy your tickets, write your name across the top, send you a copy and e-mail you with the results – it couldn’t be easier! Why not join WinTrillions on Facebook and follow us on Twitter that way you’ll always be up-to-date with what’s going on in the lottery world.

A cashier’s mistake has made Louisiana resident Robert Thibodaux a million dollars richer after she sold him the wrong ticket! When Mr Thibodaux bought his lottery ticket from Shoprite the cashier gave him the Power Play option, even though he never asked for it.Robert Thibodaux checked last Saturday’s draw results on Sunday morning and discovered that he had matched all 5 numbers on his Louisiana Lottery ticket to win what he thought would be somewhere between $20 and $40,000. This turned out to be $200,000 after checking with the Shoprite store where Thibodaux bought the ticket. But that’s not all, because he had been mistakenly given the Power Play option his $200,000 winnings were multiplied five times bringing his total prize to one million dollars. A simple mistake but, what a mistake – Robert Thibodaux plays the same numbers every week; two lottos, two Power Balls and one Easy Five but never played the Power Play except this time, after the cashier Marti Pitre pressed the button by mistake and he’s now won a million bucks; he’s even promised to write her a check as soon as he has collected his winnings! Forgiveness is indeed divine! If you too want a slice of lottery action then all you need to do is buy a ticket which you can get right here at WinTrillions, which is the world’s largest on-line lottery website, with more lotto games, more roll-overs and bigger jackpot prizes on offer than anywhere else.

Leland Hanson from Portland, Oregon was about to pay his vet’s bill when he noticed an Oregon Lottery Megabucks ticket for the 30th July draw hanging on his refrigerator door and decided to check the result to see whether there was a little extra money to be had - there was! Not just a little money but whole lot of money in fact, because Leland Hanson’s unchecked lottery ticket turned out to be worth a massive $21.8 million! Of course attaching to-do lists, photo’s, bills awaiting payment, the latest artistic masterpiece produced by your youngest offspring and long purchased and sometimes forgotten lottery tickets to the fridge door is not at all unusual. Sadly not checking whether you’re onto a winner is much more common and could well prove calamitous for your financial health – miss the claim-time deadline and you’re dead in the water! Luckily for Hanson he decided to pay his vet’s bill and then discovered his winning lottery ticket just in the nick of time. Whether, or not the $21.8 million actually covered his outstanding vet’s bill is, of course, another story! Unclaimed lottery tickets are now a multi-million dollar business. According to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, during 2009, the most recent year that data is available, the total amount of reported unclaimed prizes across the United States stood at $496 million, indeed the number is probably considerably higher because some states did not report figures. Of course if you buy your lottery tickets right here at WinTrillions you won’t ever have the hassle of losing, misplacing or forgetting to claim as we print your name on every ticket bought, send you a scanned copy and e-mail you with the results. Remember WinTrillions is the world’s largest on-line lottery website, with more lotto games, more roll-overs and bigger jackpot prizes on offer than anywhere else.