The US lottery jackpot makes £60m UK Lotto haul look like spare change

Everyone has been wetting their pants over the record-breaking Lotto jackpot in Britain.

It has reached a dizzying £60m for Saturday night's draw and everyone is going completely nuts over it. But players over in American are probably laughing their arses/asses off at us all going crazy for what probably seems like small change. Why? Because their very own record rollover jackpot now stands at a pant-sh*tting $675m - that's £464m in proper money. The prize pot has just been surging up and up as thousands of Americans have a stab at striking it rich. It went up from $450m to an incredible $524m (£359m) on Wednesday night - but nobody won, meaning Saturday night's draw is the biggest in the country's history. Who knows where it could end if Saturday draws a blank. However, unlike in the UK, winners of the Powerball don't claim all the money. The payout would have had an estimated cash value of more than $300m before taxes, according to the Powerball website, with the final amount dependent on the winner's tax rate in their home state. An 84-year-old named Gloria Mackenzie, of Florida, won the largest Powerball jackpot of all time in 2013, worth $590.5 million after a stranger let her jump the queue. Unreal. https://twitter.com/SwissKris77/status/685077732087181312