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.

[citation needed] Through 2008, Powerball drawings usually were held at Screenscape Studios in West Des Moines, Iowa.

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 cross-sell expansion.

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.

[citation needed] 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.

WGN served as a default carrier of Mega Millions or Powerball where no local television station carries either multi-jurisdictional lottery's drawings.

On March 13, 2010, New Jersey became the first previous Mega Millions-only member (just before the cross-selling expansion) to produce a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket.

This was done to enforce social distancing and discourage crowding of selling venues for large jackpots, and to account for lower interest rates.

The removal would have taken place when non-US jurisdictions were allowed to join in August 2021, but was rendered moot when the expansion was put on hold.

The scheduled November 7, 2022, drawing of the record-breaking $2.04B jackpot was delayed due to incomplete security protocols regarding ticket sales at an unnamed lottery until the next day[33][34][35] at 8:59 a.m.

Days after the drawing was completed for the $2.04 Billion Powerball Jackpot, the Minnesota Lottery announced later that week that it had been responsible for the delay.

Power Play's success has led to similar multipliers in other games, most notably Megaplier, available through all Mega Millions members except California.

The Double Play top prize is worth $10 million, which stays as a fixed amount in every drawing, even if there's no winner.

If the winner chooses the annuity, current market rates are used to calculate the graduated payment schedule and the initial installment is paid.

Exceptions include Florida and Missouri; the 60-day "clock" starts with the drawing, so a jackpot winner who wishes to take the cash option needs to make immediate plans to claim their prize.

There is no state income tax in Florida, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming, and only on interest and dividends in New Hampshire and Tennessee.

Over time, the size of jackpots has increased because of the higher ticket price, the larger number of states participating, and the reduced odds of winning.

MUSL starts with the cash value, built from a percentage of sales, and then calculates the advertised jackpot amount from that value, based on the average costs of the three best securities bids.

[64] On June 5, Florida Lottery officials announced the winner who purchased the "quick pick" ticket at a Publix supermarket.

[65] The winner chose the cash option of approximately $370.8 million, before Federal withholding; Florida does not have a state income tax.

[65] On January 13, 2016, the world's largest lottery jackpot at the time, an annuity of approximately $1.586 billion was split among three Powerball tickets in Chino Hills, California, Melbourne Beach, Florida, and Munford, Tennessee, each worth $528.8 million.

[68][69] On August 23, 2017, the owner of a Powerball ticket sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts, won more than $750 million, one of the largest prizes in the lottery's history.

[72] On November 8, 2022, a single ticket purchased in Altadena, California, was the only winner of a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, the largest in U.S. lottery history.

[74] On July 19, 2023, a single ticket purchased in Los Angeles, California, was the only winner of a $1.08 billion ($558.1 million cash) Powerball jackpot.

[75] On October 11, 2023, a single ticket purchased in Frazier Park, California, was the only winner of a $1.76 billion ($774.1 million cash) Powerball jackpot, the second-largest in U.S lottery history.

However, all 110 winners had played numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc. of Long Island City, New York.

[79] Had the fortune cookie given 42 as the Powerball number, these winners would have shared the $25 million jackpot: each $227,272 annuity or $122,727 cash (before withholdings).

In 2007, the Oregon Lottery released a Windows Sidebar gadget that displays the winning numbers for Powerball in real-time.