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!