Prize Too Big?

Someone had better win the Big Game multistate drawing soon because the lottery’s billboards can’t roll over to $200 million. No one had picked all six numbers in the Big Game in two months, bumping the jackpot for Tuesday night’s drawing to $150 million. With Big Game tickets available only in Georgia, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey, mobs of buyers gathered at stores just inside those states’ lines. The executive director of the Georgia State Lottery Corp. said there isn’t room on the billboards to put a 2 over the 1. If they have to, lottery officials will put $199 million on the billboards and rely on advertising to get the word out.