The internet is going crazy over tonight’s huge £50million Lotto draw

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