If there's such a thing as 'Lotto Fever', then Britain has got it bad.
Symptoms - feverish excitement in the face of ridiculous odds, crazy delusions of the possibility of actually winning and bizarre fantasies about weird ways of spending the cash.
British people everywhere are terminal with it.
It's getting to Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket-levels of hysteria with more than 200 tickets a second being sold for the mega draw tonight.
People couldn't handle it...
https://twitter.com/korenowen/status/684694221966733316
Others were determined to win...
https://twitter.com/JoeyRossall/status/684680263075524608
One guy was still mulling over whether to have a go...
https://twitter.com/alansmith46/status/684693334095474688
People were looking for any advantage they possibly could...
https://twitter.com/_carolinawatson/status/684687191516278784
Even the realists couldn't resist a ticket...even in the face of dizzying odds
https://twitter.com/MargueriteKaye/status/684692690978615296
Still, that's a shoe-in compared to the odds of dropping the US mega lottery...
https://twitter.com/hayley_specs/status/684706696590159872
Students were prepared to sacrifice their education at the alter of the Lotto gods...
https://twitter.com/katelewisx/status/684685121555922944
Megan was playing the numbers game...
https://twitter.com/Megan_SheWrote/status/684685030413746176
This guy was so excited he was struggling to find six numbers between 1 and 59...
https://twitter.com/X12Keletso/status/684684078851948544
This guy had the best tip for actually winning the thing...
https://twitter.com/kocky93/status/684696363527999494
But everyone was dreaming about how they would spend their winnings...
https://twitter.com/tinkrussell/status/684687126919790592
https://twitter.com/TommmBrownnn/status/684687583331352576
https://twitter.com/ashlienicolee/status/684687241982160896
https://twitter.com/EEConor/status/684677878450094080
https://twitter.com/damien_utv/status/684676146491953153
But if anyone has to win the £50m, let it be Dean Kirchoff. Can you imagine the epic party he would throw...
https://twitter.com/KirchoffDean/status/684696486404173824
