Are You Destined to Win the Next Super Mega Lottery Jackpot?

By anyone's definition playing the lottery is a very popular form of gambling. Lottery charms and hundreds of lucky number systems are for sale on the internet so you can increase your chances of winning. Over half of all Americans buy a lottery ticket every year in the US spending some $46 billion dollars. /www.lotteries123.org. China, with a huge but largely rural peasant population spent $8.1 billion dollars on lottery tickets in 2007, up 30% from 2006. www.world-lotteries.org. The citizens of ancient Rome could play the lottery and the lottery may have helped finance the Great Wall of China. www.wikipedia.org . The first American State to sponsor a lottery was New Hampshire in 1964. By 2007, 41 more states had established lotteries. The District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands have lotteries too. Over 85 countries across five continents have national lotteries including Ethiopia, Togo, Sri Lanka, Ghana, and Uruguay. www.world-lotteries.org. Then there are regional lotteries; the Pan European "Euro Millions"; the "Viking Lotto" of the Nordic countries; the "United Kingdom's National Lottery"; and the American multi-state lotteries "Powerball" and "Mega Millions". The first documented cash lotto prize was won in Florence, Italy in 1530. www.lotteries123.org . Over the course of the last 477 years the size of cash lotto prizes has grown and in 2007 winners in 7 countries took home some of the largest jackpots in the history of the world.

The world's largest lotto jackpot ever, $390 million dollars was won on March 5, 2007 by a man from Georgia and a couple from New Jersey, who both picked the same winning numbers. They split the $390 million two ways. The georgia man's prize was an estimated $80 million dollars after taxes. It was a "Mega Millions" jackpot.

An 84 year-old World War II veteran won $254 million dollars in a"Powerball" jackpot in 2007. Worth more than a quarter-billion dollars, it was one of the largest single-ticket lottery prizes in U.S. history. It was the 10th-largest single-ticket lottery prize in world history. www.abcnews.go.com.

In November 2007 in China, an unidentified university student quit school after winning the country's largest ever individual lottery prize -- $14 million dollars..
Small by Western standards but an enormous sum in China.

A Royal mail worker and single mother won $72 million dollars in the "Euro Millions" lottery drawing on August 10th 2007 making her the biggest lottery winner in Great Briton's history. This made her richer than the royal family's Prince William and Prince Harry. www.dailymail.co.uk.

On July 28, 2007 the largest jackpot in the history of the Irish National Lottery, $32.4 million dollars was won by an Irish woman and her husband. www.wikipedia.org.

In February 2007, a Belgian man won a "Euro Millions" lotto prize of $132 million dollars. He was the biggest lotto winner in Belgian history and the second-largest individual winner in "Euro Millions" history.

The biggest prize in the Mexican lottery systems history, $37.2 million dollars was won in June 2007.

The biggest lotto jackpot in the history of India was won won August 6, 2007, $2.9 million dollars. www.//cities.expressindia.com.