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Tonight’s lottery jackpot isn’t just mind blowing — it blowing out the lottery’s signs.
The $1.28 billion Mega Millions prize is so high, it’s causing a glitch in electronic store lottery displays that weren’t programmed to go beyond $999 million at stores everywhere they sell the tickets.
Shops have been forced to tout an undersized jackpot because the signs only have slots for three digits — with the word “millions” printed below adding furhter confusion, workers and customers said.
“They didn’t expect it to get that high,” said Anthony Williams, a 60-year-old janitor, who bought a ticket at the Gardenia Deli in Manhattan.
