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The Nosferatu do not die like the bees when they sting once He is only stronger and being stronger have yet more power to work evil |
Victims who are bitten by a vampire and do not die are hypnotically influenced by them |
Those children whose blood she suck are not yet so much worse but if she live on UnDead more and more lose their blood and by her power over them they come to her |
Van Helsing later describes the aftermath of a bitten victim when the vampire has been killed |
But if she die in truth then all cease the tiny wounds of the throats disappear and they go back to their plays unknowing of whatever has been |
As Dracula slowly drains Lucy s blood she dies from acute blood loss and later transforms into a vampire despite the efforts of Seward and Van Helsing to provide her with blood transfusions |
He is aided by powers of necromancy and divination of the dead that all who die by his hand may reanimate and do his bidding |
Dracula requires no other sustenance but fresh human blood which has the effect of rejuvenating him and allowing him to grow younger His power is drawn from the blood of others and he can not survive without it Although drinking blood can rejuvenate his youth and strength it does not give him the ability to regenerate months after being struck on the head by a shovel he still bears a scar from the impact |
Dracula s preferred victims are women Harker states that he believes Dracula has a state of fasting as well as a state of feeding Dracula does state to Mina however that exerting his abilities caused a desire to feed |
Count Dracula is depicted as the King Vampire and can control other vampires To punish Mina and the party for their efforts against him Dracula bites her on at least three occasions He also forces her to drink his blood this act curses her with the effects of vampirism and gives him a telepathic link to her thoughts However hypnotism was only able to be done before dawn Van Helsing refers to the act of drinking blood by both the vampire and the victim the Vampire s Baptism of Blood |
The effects changes Mina physically and mentally over time A few moments after Dracula attacks her Van Helsing takes a wafer of sacramental bread and places it on her forehead to bless her when the bread touches her skin it burns her and leaves a scar on her forehead Her teeth start growing longer but do not grow sharper She begins to lose her appetite feeling repulsed by normal food begins to sleep more and more during the day can not wake unless at sunset and stops writing in her diary When Van Helsing later crumbles the same bread in a circle around her she is unable to cross or leave the circle discovering a new form of protection |
Dracula s death can release the curse on any living victim of eventual transformation into vampire However Van Helsing reveals that were he to successfully escape his continued existence would ensure that even if he did not victimize Mina further she would transform into a vampire upon her eventual natural death |
Dracula is much less powerful in daylight and is only able to shift his form at dawn noon and dusk he can shift his form freely at night or if he is at his grave The sun is not fatal to him as sunlight does not burn and destroy him upon contact though most of his abilities cease |
The sun that rose on our sorrow this morning guards us in its course Until it sets to night that monster must retain whatever form he now has He is confined within the limitations of his earthly envelope He can not melt into thin air nor disappear through cracks or chinks or crannies If he go through a doorway he must open the door like a mortal |
His power ceases as does that all of all evil things at the coming of the day Only at certain times can he have limited freedom If he be not at the place whither he is bound he can only change himself at noon or exact sunrise or sunset |
He is also limited in his ability to travel as he can only cross running water at low or high tide Due to this he is unable to fly across a river in the form of a bat or mist or even by himself board a boat or step off a boat onto a dock unless he is physically carried over with assistance He is also unable to enter a place unless invited to do so by someone of the household even a visitor once invited he can enter and leave the premises at will |
Dracula has a bloodlust which he is seemingly unable to control At the sight of blood he becomes enveloped in a demonic fury which is fueled by the need to feed Other adaptations call this uncontrollable state the thirst |
There are items which afflict him to the point he has no power and can even calm him from his insatiable appetite for blood He is repulsed by garlic as well as sacred items and symbols such as crucifixes and sacramental bread |
at the instant I saw that the cut had bled a little and the blood was trickling over my chin I laid down the razor turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster When the Count saw my face his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury and he suddenly made a grab at my throat I drew away and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix It made an instant change in him for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there |
Placing the branch of a wild rose upon the top of his coffin will render him unable to escape it a sacred bullet fired into the coffin could kill him so that he remain true dead |
Mountain Ash is also described as a form of protection from a vampire although the effects are unknown This was believed to be used as protection against evil spirits and witches during the Victorian era |
The state of rest to which vampires are prone to during times of day is described in the novel as a deathlike sleep where the vampire sleeps open eyed is unable to awaken or move yet also may be unaware of any presence of individuals who may be trespassing Dracula is portrayed as being active in daylight at least once in order to pursue a victim Dracula also purchases many properties throughout London over the counter which shows that he does have the ability to have some type of presence in daylight |
He requires Transylvanian soil to be nearby to him in a foreign land or to be entombed within his coffin within Transylvania in order to successfully rest otherwise he will be unable to recover his strength This has forced him to transport many boxes of Transylvanian earth to each of his residences in London It should be noted however that he is most powerful when he is within his Earth Home Coffin Home Hell Home or any place unhallowed |
Further if Dracula or any vampire has had their fill in blood upon feeding they will be caused to rest in this dead state even longer than usual |
While universally feared by the local people of Transylvania and even beyond Dracula commands the loyalty of gypsies and a band of Slovaks who transport his boxes on their way to London and to serve as an armed convoy bringing his coffin back to his castle The Slovaks and gypsies appear to know his true nature for they laugh at Harker when he tries to communicate his plight and betray Harker s attempt to send a letter through them by giving it to the Count |
Dracula seems to be able to hold influence over people with mental disorders such as Renfield who is never bitten but who worships Dracula referring to him over the course of the novel as Master and Lord Dracula also afflicts Lucy with chronic sleepwalking putting her into a trance like state that allows them not only to submit to his will but also seek him and satisfy his need to feed |
Dracula s powers and weaknesses vary greatly in the many adaptations Previous and subsequent vampires from different legends have had similar vampire characteristics |
Dracula is one of the most famous characters in popular culture He has been portrayed by more actors in more visual media adaptations of the novel than any other horror character Actors who have played him include Max Schreck Bla Lugosi John Carradine Christopher Lee Francis Lederer Denholm Elliott Jack Palance Louis Jourdan Frank Langella Klaus Kinski Gary Oldman Leslie Nielsen George Hamilton Keith Lee Castle Gerard Butler Duncan Regehr Richard Roxburgh Marc Warren Rutger Hauer Stephen Billington Thomas Kretschmann Dominic Purcell Luke Evans and Lon Chaney Jr In 2003 Count Dracula as portrayed by Lugosi in the 1931 film was named as the 33rd greatest movie villain by the AFI |
The character is closely associated with the western cultural archetype of the vampire and remains a popular Halloween costume |
Already in 1958 Cecil Kirtly proposed that Count Dracula shared his personal past with the historical Transylvanian born Voivode Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad epe Following the publication of In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally in 1972 this supposed connection attracted much popular attention This work argued that Bram Stoker based his Dracula on Vlad the Impaler |
Historically the name Dracula is the given name of Vlad epe family a name derived from a secret fraternal order of knights called the Order of the Dragon founded by Sigismund of Luxembourg king of Hungary and Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor to uphold Christianity and defend the Empire against the Ottoman Turks Vlad II Dracul father of Vlad III was admitted to the order around 1431 because of his bravery in fighting the Turks and was dubbed Dracul Dragon thus his son became Dracula son of the dragon From 1431 onward Vlad II wore the emblem of the order and later as ruler of Wallachia his coinage bore the dragon symbol |
Stoker came across the name Dracula in his reading on Romanian history and chose this to replace the name Count Wampyr that he had originally intended to use for his villain However some Dracula scholars led by Elizabeth Miller have questioned the depth of this connection as early as 1998 They argue that Stoker in fact knew little of the historic Vlad III Vlad the Impaler and that he used only the name Dracula and some miscellaneous scraps of Romanian history As well and there are no comments about Vlad III in the author s working notes |
While having a conversation with Jonathan Harker in Chapter 3 Dracula refers to his own background and these speeches show elements which Stoker directly copied from Wilkinson s book Stoker mentions the Voivode of the Dracula race who fought against the Turks after the defeat in the Battle of Kosovo and was later betrayed by his brother historical facts which unequivocally point to Vlad III described as Vovode Dracula by Wilkinson |
Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground This was a Dracula indeed Woe was it that his own unworthy brother when he had fallen sold his people to the Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them Was it not this Dracula indeed who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey land who when he was beaten back came again and again though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph Chapter 3 pp 19 |
The Count s intended identity is later commented by Professor Van Helsing referring to a letter from his friend Arminius |
He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey land Chapter 18 pp 145 |
This indeed encourages the reader to identify the Count with the Voivode Dracula first mentioned by him in Chapter 3 the one betrayed by his brother Vlad III Dracula betrayed by his brother Radu the Handsome who had chosen the side of the Turks But as noted by the Dutch author Hans Corneel de Roos in Chapter 25 Van Helsing and Mina drop this rudimentary connection to Vlad III and instead describe the Count s personal past as that of that other of his race who lived in a later age By smoothly exchanging Vlad III for a nameless double Stoker avoided that his main character could be unambiguously linked to a historical person traceable in any history book |
Similarly the novelist did not want to disclose the precise site of the Count s residence Castle Dracula As confirmed by Stoker s own handwritten research notes the novelist had a specific location for the Castle in mind while writing the narrative an empty mountain top in the Transylvanian Kelemen Alps near the former border with Moldavia Efforts to promote the Poenari Castle ca 200 km away from the novel s place of action near the Borgo Pass as the real Castle Dracula have no basis in Stoker s writing Stoker did not know this building Regarding the Bran Castle near Braov Stoker possibly saw an illustration of Castle Bran Trzburg in Charles Boner s book on Transylvania Although Stoker may have been inspired by its romantic appearance neither Boner nor Mazuchelli nor Crosse who also mention Terzburg or Trzburg associate it with Vlad III for the site of his fictitious Castle Dracula Stoker preferred an empty mountain top |
Furthermore Stoker s detailed notes reveal that the novelist was very well aware of the ethnic and geo political differences between the Roumanians or Wallachs Wallachians descendants of the Dacians and the Szkelys or Szeklers allies of the Magyars or Hungarians whose interests were opposed to that of the Wallachians In the novel s original typewritten manuscript the Count speaks of throwing off the Austrian yoke which corresponds to the Szekler political point of view This expression is crossed out however and replaced by Hungarian yoke as appearing in the printed version which matches the historical perspective of the Wallachians This has been interpreted by some to mean that Stoker opted for the Wallachian not the Szekler interpretation thus lending more consistency to the Romanian identity of his Count although not identical with Vlad III the Vampire is portrayed as one of the Dracula race |
Sir Andrew Maxwell Andy Dwyer KBE dwa r is a fictional character in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation portrayed by Chris Pratt Originally meant to be a temporary character Andy was so likable that producers asked Pratt back as a series regular He appears in the first season as Ann Perkins unemployed slacker boyfriend then takes a job as a shoe shiner at Pawnee City Hall in the second season Andy eventually marries April Ludgate and is later promoted to Leslie Knope s assistant Pratt was credited as a guest star for the first season despite appearing in every episode he is part of the main cast for every season after season one |
Andy is one of the few starring characters not to appear in every episode as he was absent for a multiepisode arc in season six while Pratt was filming Guardians of the Galaxy |
At the start of the series Andy Dwyer is dating Ann Perkins Ann matured faster than Andy did while Ann entered into a career in nursing Andy remained lazy and spoiled |
Andy remained unemployed after school but was the lead singer and guitarist for his rock band which underwent numerous name changes starting with Teddy Bear Suicide prior to the show s first season including MouseRat God Hates Figs Department of Homeland Obscurity Flames For Flames Muscle Confusion Nothing Rhymes With Orange then Everything Rhymes With Orange Punch Face Champions Rad Wagon Puppy Pendulum Possum Pendulum Penis Pendulum Handrail Suicide Angel Snack Just The Tip Jet Black Pope Four Skin later Three Skin when one member quit MouseRat again RatMouse without Dwyer Scarecrow Boat Tackleshaft and then MouseRat yet again |
Though absentminded and possessing an extremely short attention span Andy is shown to have a savant like memory For instance he received the highest grade the police academy had ever seen on the written entrance test has an uncanny ability to remember movies word for word and is able to memorize a long list of facts for his feminist college class in the episode Smallest Park Andy also had perfect SAT scores but mentioned it was probably due to broken Scantron machines |
Before the start of the first season a drunken Andy fell into a large construction pit and broke both his legs while attempting to retrieve a discarded toaster from the bottom of the pit Ann is at first unaware that Andy was drunk at the time of the fall and the incident inspires her to attend Parks and Recreation meetings to advocate for filling in the pit It is at these meetings that Ann first befriends Parks Deputy Director Leslie Knope |
With both of Andy s legs in casts Ann pampers him bringing him food and letting him play video games all day When the doctors inform Andy that the casts can be removed he delays their removal for several weeks so he can continue receiving this treatment from Ann After the casts are removed Ann discovers the truth and furiously breaks up with Andy |
Andy moves into a tent pitched in the pit and watches Ann claiming to be protecting her He makes many failed attempts to reconcile with Ann After Mark Brendanawicz begins dating Ann Andy grows to hate him but pretends to like him whenever Ann is around Andy is injured in the pit a second time when Leslie arranges to have it filled with dirt unaware that Andy is still in the pit Andy considers suing the town with the hopes of getting money and winning Ann back but Leslie convinces him to settle out of court in exchange for having the pit filled in Leslie gives Andy a job as the shoe shiner at the Pawnee City Hall as part of his settlement April Ludgate the parks department intern begins to develop a crush on Andy but he is for a long time unaware of her feelings toward him As time goes on Andy begins to develop feelings for April though he is unsure about dating her due to their age difference and his own unresolved feelings for Ann Simultaneously Ann begins to show similar feelings for Andy after her relationship with Mark ends At the end of the season having broken up with Mark Ann kisses Andy who does not reciprocate This later causes him problems with April who continues to believe he is still in love with Ann |
Andy has been unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with April When she finally returns from Venezuela she arrives with a new boyfriend Eduardo Leslie encourages Andy to not give up In the episode Time Capsule Andy befriends Eduardo at the advice of Chris Traeger As a result April begins hating her new boyfriend and he moves back to Venezuela Andy also becomes the new coach of one of the two youth basketball teams with Ron serving as the other coach Andy s coaching style is much lazier than Ron s strict style He is also briefly Ron s receptionist in Flu Season In the episode Media Blitz April leads Andy to believe that if he completes the tasks she hates every day for a month she will consider being with him Although she begins this as a bluff after seeing Andy complete even the most humiliating of these tasks happily she kisses him In the episode Andy and April s Fancy Party Andy reveals that he had proposed to April a day earlier after only one month of dating to which April replied Fine They are married at the end of the episode in a surprise ceremony |
At the beginning of season four Tom asks Andy to join his new company He declines Tom s offer and instead joins Leslie s campaign as her assistant and head of security a role he enjoys very much At the end of the season he is encouraged by April to pursue a career as a police officer as all his dream jobs with the exception of rock star revolve around law enforcement |
During the fifth season Andy continues to pursue his ambition to become a police officer and seeks help from others to better his chances of passing the police academy entrance exams He asks Chris to help him get fit enough to pass the police physical His marriage to April is not strained by the distance between them they exchange care packages and he visits her in Washington DC |
Andy earns a perfect score on the written portion of the police officers exam When he fails the personality portion of the exam he gets a rousing pep talk from Chris Ben then gives Andy a job working with him at the Sweetum s charity foundation |
Andy s role is reduced in the sixth season as Chris Pratt was busy with other filming commitments Andy spends the early part of season 6 in England attending to Sweetum s charity work Before he went to England he loses 50 pounds after giving up beer He briefly visits Pawnee and does not want to return to England but April convinces him to go back In the season finale Andy reunites with MouseRat and sings a Lil Sebastian memorial song at the Pawnee Unity concert |
Andy remains married to April Ludgate and the two have become responsible adults to their horror He has a TV show on public access The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show where he is knighted by Lord Edgar Covington in its final episode and later works part time at the National Parks service His friendship with Tom has grown since the previous seasons After April decides to leave for a new job in Washington DC Andy goes with her |
In a series of flash forwards in the final episode April and Andy ask Leslie and Ben for advice regarding the prospect of having children which Andy very much wants but April does not They decide to try for it and their son Burt Snakehole Ludgate Karate Dracula Macklin Demon Jack o Lantern Jack Dwyer is born on Halloween 2023 By 2025 the couple is expecting their second child |
Chris Pratt was credited as a guest star throughout the entire first season but was promoted to the main cast in the second season The Andy character was originally supposed to appear only in the first season but the producers liked Pratt so much that almost immediately after casting him they decided to make Andy a regular character |
In the second season Pratt did a scene with Amy Poehler while he was naked Poehler was not expecting this and Pratt was reprimanded for it The take was later aired on TV He was expected to wear skin tone briefs |
Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 44 states the District of Columbia Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands It is coordinated by the MultiState Lottery Association MUSL a nonprofit organization formed by an agreement with US lotteries Powerball s minimum advertised jackpot is 40 million annuity Powerball s annuity is paid in 30 graduated installments or winners may choose a lump sum payment instead One lump sum payment will be less than the total of the 30 annual payments because of the time value of money |
Drawings for Powerball are held every Wednesday and Saturday evening at 10 59 pm Eastern Time Since October 7 2015 the game has used a 5 69 white balls 1 26 Powerballs matrix from which winning numbers are chosen resulting in odds of 1 in 292201338 of winning a jackpot per play Each play costs 2 or 3 with the Power Play option Originally Powerball plays cost 1 when PowerPlay began such games were 2 The official cutoff for ticket sales is 10 00 pm Eastern Time some lotteries cut off sales earlier The drawings are usually held at the Florida Lottery s studio in Tallahassee |
On January 13 2016 Powerball produced the largest lottery jackpot in history the 1586 billion jackpot was split by three tickets sold in Chino Hills California in Munford Tennessee and in Melbourne Beach Florida |
Powerball replaced Lotto America in April 1992 Mega Millions replaced The Big Game 10 years later See below for the evolution of the name Mega Millions |
Alabama Alaska Hawaii Mississippi Nevada and Utah do not sell lottery tickets In 2013 Wyoming became the 44th state to establish a lottery the next year it began initially offering both Mega Millions and Powerball |
Powerball s predecessor began in 1988 the multistate game was known as Lotto America The game and name were changed to Powerball on April 19 1992 its first drawing was held April 22 |
When it was launched in 1992 Powerball became the first game to use two drums Using two drums to draw numbers from offers more manipulation by simultaneously allowing high jackpot odds numerous prize levels and low overall odds of winning as explained later a ticket can win by matching only one number The two drum concept was suggested by Steve Caputo of the Oregon Lottery The two drum concept has since been used by The Big Game now Mega Millions in the US Australia s Powerball Thunderball in the UK Eurojackpot and EuroMillions unlike most two drum games Euromillions selects two numbers called Lucky Stars from the 2nd drum jackpot winners must make a total of seven matches |
Through 2008 Powerball drawings usually were held at Screenscape Studios in West Des Moines Iowa The drawings host was longtime Iowa radio personality Mike Pace who had hosted MUSL drawings since Lotto America began in 1988 In 1996 Powerball went on the road for the first time holding five remote drawings at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta A few weeks later Georgia became the only jurisdiction to leave Powerball Maine which joined MUSL in 1990 left when Powerball began In August 1996 Georgia joined the then new The Big Game then the other major US lottery group It planned to sell tickets for both games for the rest of 1996 but within days Georgia was removed from MUSL not to return until the 2010 crosssell expansion |
On November 2 1997 the annuity was changed from 20 to 25 yearly payments the cash option was added The annuity comprises 30 graduated payments increasing 5 annually |
In 1998 Florida was given permission by its government to participate in a multistate game It was set to offer Powerball but in early 1999 new governor Jeb Bush prevented Florida from joining since he believed Powerball would hurt the existing Florida Lottery games In 2008 Governor Charlie Crist finally allowed Florida to join MUSL on Jan 4 2009 |
On March 7 2001 an optional multiplier called Power Play was added allowing players to multiply nonjackpot winnings by up to five by paying an extra 1 per game A wheel was introduced to select the Power Play multiplier for each drawing the next year the 1x was removed from the Power Play wheel |
With the start of Powerball sales in Florida on January 4 2009 with its first drawing on January 7 the matrices changed to 5 59 1 39 adding four white ball numbers and dropping three red balls This changed the jackpot probability from 1 146 million to 1 195 million the overall probability became 1 35 |
Based on statistical projections the average jackpot win increased from 95 million to 141 million Over 35 million additional prizes were expected to be won yearly due to the change in probability The starting jackpot increased to 20 million with minimum rollovers of 5 million The jackpot contribution increased from 303 to 325 of total sales The Power Play option was modified second prize usually 200000 was given an automatic 5x multiplier making the 5 0 prize 1 million cash The bonus second prize if the jackpot exceeded its previous record by 25 million triggered only twice was eliminated with the 2012 format change |
The conditions for Florida joining Powerball included a move of the live drawings from Iowa to Universal Studios in Orlando The three hosts rotating announcing duties from Universal Studios were Tracy Wiu Elizabeth Hart and Scott Adams MUSL headquarters remained in Iowa where its other draws are held The wheel that was used to determine the Power Play multiplier was retired when the drawings moved to Florida a random number generator RNG was used until the 2012 format change |
Arkansas became the 33rd MUSL member on October 31 2009 the last to join before the 2010 crosssell expansion The Ohio Lottery added Powerball on April 16 2010 it joined Mega Millions along with New York years earlier when The Big Game added Mega Millions to its name |
In March 2009 it was reported that New Jersey already a Mega Millions member sought permission to join Powerball Shortly after discussions were revealed about allowing each US lottery to offer both games On Oct 13 the Mega Millions consortium and MUSL reached an agreement in principle to crosssell Mega Millions and Powerball In Nov MUSL signed an agreement to start streaming Powerball drawings online |
On Jan 31 2010 the date of the crosssell expansion Mega Millions and MUSL each added lotteries eight Powerball members added Mega Millions by May The Montana Lottery joined Mega Millions on March 1 Nebraska added Mega Millions on March 20 Oregon followed on March 28 Arizona joined Mega Millions on April 18 Maine added Mega Millions on May 9 Colorado and South Dakota joined Mega Millions on May 16 The US Virgin Islands joined Mega Millions in Oct 2010 |
Before the agreement the only places that sold both Mega Millions and Powerball tickets were retailers straddling a border one retailer on the Sharon Pennsylvania Masury Ohio border sold both Mega Millions via the Ohio Lottery and Powerball Pennsylvania before the agreement and continued to be the only retailer to sell tickets for both lotteries |
Illinois joining Powerball on the expansion date it became the second multijurisdictional lottery game after Mega Millions which Illinois already participated in whose drawings were carried nationally Both games drawings were simulcast via Chicago cable superstation WGN TV through its national WGN America feed WGN TV aired Illinois Lottery drawings nationally from 1992 to 2015 after acquiring broadcast rights from Chicago s Fox owned and operated station WFLD in 1988 which took the rights from WGN TV in 1987 Powerball drawings were aired on WGN TV and WGN America on Wednesday and Saturday immediately following the station s 9pm Central Time newscast with the Mega Millions drawings being aired Tue and Fri evenings after the newscast WGN served as a default carrier of Mega Millions or Powerball where no local television station carries either multijurisdictional lottery s drawings |
On March 13 2010 New Jersey became the first previous Mega Millions only member just before the crossselling expansion to produce a jackpot winning Powerball ticket It was worth over 211 million in annuity payments it was sold in Morris Plains On May 28 2010 North Carolina became the first previous MUSL member just before the crossselling expansion to produce a jackpot winning Mega Millions ticket that jackpot was 12 million annuity |
On June 2 2010 Ohio won a Powerball jackpot it became the first lottery selling either Mega Millions or Powerball when 2010 began to provide a jackpot winning ticket for its newer game The ticket was worth a 261 million annuity it was sold in Sunbury Ohio s second Powerball jackpot winning ticket sold for the June 23 2010 drawing was part of another first since Montana also provided a jackpot winner for that drawing it was the first time a jackpot was shared through lotteries which sold competing games before the crossselling expansion as Montana sold only Powerball before the expansion date |
On January 15 2012 the price of each basic Powerball play doubled to 2 while PowerPlay games became 3 the minimum jackpot doubled to 40 million A nonjackpot play matching the five white balls won 1 million The red balls decreased from 39 to 35 The drawings were moved from Universal Studios Orlando to the Florida Lottery s studios in Tallahassee Sam Arlen served as host with Alexa Fuentes substituting |
These changes were made to increase the frequency of nine figure jackpots a Powerball spokesperson believed a 500 million jackpot was feasible it became a reality within the year and that the 1st 1 billion jackpot in US history would occur by 2012 Less than three months after the Powerball changes Mega Millions jackpot reached 656000000 despite remaining a 1 per play game The random Power Play multiplier was retired for a set fixed dollar amount payout The 25 million rollover cap creating larger 5 0 prizes was eliminated |
California joined on April 8 2013 it has never offered the Power Play option as all payouts in California Lottery drawing games by law are parimutuel Mega Millions which became available in California in 2005 offers its Megaplier in its other 45 jurisdictions |
On January 22 2014 the variable Power Play option returned 2x 5x for multiplying nonjackpot prizes |
In October 2014 Puerto Rico joined Powerball the first mainly Spanish speaking jurisdiction offering the game as of 2016 it had not joined Mega Millions |
On Oct 4 2015 the Powerball format changed again the white ball pool increased from 59 to 69 while the Powerball pool decreased from 35 to 26 While this improved the chance of winning any prize to 1 in 24 it also lengthened the jackpot odds to 1 in 292201338 The 4 1 prize became 50000 the 10x PowerPlay became available in drawings with a jackpot of under 150 million Three months later the format produced a 15 billion jackpot double the previous record after 20 consecutive rollovers |
The minimum Powerball bet is 2 In each game players select five numbers from a set of 69 white balls and one number from 26 red Powerballs the red ball number can be the same as one of the white balls The drawing order of the five white balls is irrelevant all tickets show the white ball numbers in ascending order Players can not use the drawn Powerball to match two of their white numbers or vice versa Players can select their own numbers or have the terminal pseudorandomly select the numbers called quick pick easy pick etc |
In each drawing winning numbers are selected using two ball machines one containing the white balls and the other containing the red Powerballs Five white balls are drawn from the first machine and the red ball from the second machine Games matching at least three white balls or the red Powerball win |
Two identical machines are used for each drawing randomly selected from four sets The model of machine used is the Halogen manufactured by Smartplay International of Edgewater Park New Jersey There are eight ball sets four of each color one set of each color is randomly selected before a drawing The balls are mixed by a turntable at the bottom of the machine that propels the balls around the chamber When the machine selects a ball the turntable slows to catch it sends it up the shaft and then down the rail to the display |
The double matrixes and probabilities in the game s history |
Power Play was introduced in 2001 10 available if jackpot is under 150 million |
While Mega Millions and Powerball each have similar jackpot odds despite having a different double matrix Mega Millions is 5 75 1 15 since Powerball is 2 per play it now takes 584402676 not counting Power Play side bets on average to produce a jackpot winning ticket |
For an additional 1 per game a player may activate the Power Play option Activating it multiplies lower tier winnings base prize 50000 or less by up to 5 or 10 when the jackpot is under 150 million Power Play is drawn separate from the 6 numbers The 5 0 prize is automatically doubled to 2 million if Power Play is activated |
The dilemma for players is whether to maximize the chance at the jackpot or increase lower tier winnings If a player selects a fixed amount of money to spend on tickets at a certain time the player will give up one guess of the winning set of numbers every two times this player activates Power Play in respect of one of the purchased tickets |
Power Play when it began in 2001 was drawn with a special wheel In 2006 and 2007 MUSL replaced one of the 5 spaces on the Power Play wheel with a 10 During each month long promotion MUSL guaranteed that there would be at least one drawing with a 10 multiplier The promotion returned in 2008 the ball landed in the 10 space twice After being absent in 2009 the 10 multiplier returned in May 2010 after the Power Play drawing was changed to RNG The promotion was extended for the only time as the 10 multiplier was not drawn until June 12 The second prize 5 guarantee continued the 10 applied to all nonjackpot prizes as in previous promotions |
Power Play s success has led to similar multipliers in other games most notably Megaplier available through all Mega Millions members except California The 2012 Powerball changes resulted in all eight lower tier levels having fixed Power Play prizes |
On Jan 19 2014 PowerPlay was modified it used 30 balls with the following distribution |
On Oct 4 2015 PowerPlay changed again using 42 or 43 balls as follows |
10x available when jackpot is under 150 million |