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Scratchcard Kiosk

2009-12-10T15:18:48Z

216.144.204.42: level gain information.

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'''Scratchcard Kiosk''' is a luck and chance game held in the [[Ice Caves]] and run by the [[Scratch Card Kiosk Wocky]]. To play, a user buys a [[scratchcard]] for 600 [[Neopoints]] and scratches off 6 of 9 spaces in hopes of getting 3 matching symbols, winning [[Neopoints]], increasing a neopet's level or [[item]]s. The level reward is assigned to a random neopet, not the active one. There are many different scratchcards to which can be given, and they are rewarded at random, with some more rarer than others and giving better and more expensive prizes. A user can purchase a scratchcard from Scratchcard Kiosk once every 6 hours, and cannot by any other scratchcards during this time either. A user is limited to scratching 5 scratchcards per day, of any type (including Lost Desert and Haunted Woods scratchcards).

It's against the rules to visit the Scratchcard Kiosk with [[Multiple Accounts]], because it unbalances the game, causing the price of the scratchcard to change with the number of them in Neopets. Users are limited to one account per person to visit, and using multiple accounts to gain Neopoints is not allowed and will result in the user being [[Frozen]].

There are 5 different scratchcards Scratchcard Kiosk gives, each with a selected prize selection a user is possible of winning from...

{|border=1
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! Name and Image || Prizes
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|http://images.neopets.com/items/scratchcard1.gif Race To Riches Scratchcard ||
*2,500np
*5,000np
*10,000np
*Snowballs (more than 1)
*Quiggle Toy
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/items/scratchcard2.gif Terror Trove Scratchcard ||
*Level Up
*5,000np
*10,000np
*Snowballs
*Quiggle Toy
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/items/scratchcard3.gif Faeries Fortune Scratchcard ||
*Level Up
*10,000np
*5,000np
*Snowballs
*Random Artifact
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/items/scratchcard4.gif Peak O Plenty Scratchcard ||
*50,000np
*Rare Artifact of Terror Mountain
*Level Up
*10,000np
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/items/scratchcard5.gif Icetravaganza Scratchcard ||
*JACKPOT
*50,000np
*Rare Artifact of Terror Mountain
|}

==External Links==
*[http://neopets.com/winter/kiosk.phtml Scratchcard Kiosk]
*'''NeoDeck:''' [http://www.neopets.com/games/neodeck/colcardlookup.phtml?colcard_id=317 Scratch Card Kiosk Wocky]
*'''Help File:''' [http://neopets.com/help_search.phtml?help_id=178 Where are the Ice Caves?], [http://neopets.com/help_search.phtml?help_id=359 Where is the Scratch Card Kiosk?]
*'''Editorial:''' [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=34 34], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=35 35], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=75 75], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=81 81], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=82 82], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=89 89], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=106 106], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=175 175]

[[Category: Luck and Chance Games]]

Polarchuck

2006-07-18T12:43:22Z

216.144.204.42:

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'''Polarchucks''' are plump, bear-like [[Petpet]]s that originate from [[Terror Mountain]]. Users play a famous Polarchuck, [[Dieter]], in [[Snowmuncher]].

== External Links ==
*Neopets TCG: [http://neopets.com/tcg/displayCard.phtml?edid=6&id=136 Polarchuck]

[[category: Petpets]]

Adam Powell

2006-04-04T02:31:41Z

216.144.204.42: /* On Neopets */ revert vandalism

'''Adam J. Powell''' (born December 20, 1976 in Wales) is the co-founder of [[Neopets]]. Jointly launched the website with [[Donna Williams]] on November 15, 1999, starting from an idea they had in 1997 while sitting in a dingy little computer room, possibly while eating kebabs or pizza.

Prior to founding Neopets, he was also involved in ''Shout! Advertising'', a UK-based advertising company which operated the third largest click-through program on the Internet by mid-1999. He also founded Netmagic in July 1999, which focused on web page design, and Powlex in March 1997, which designed and sold online banner advertising. Mr. Powell currently focuses on the technical and programming aspects of the Neopets website, and is still the head of the developers for the game.

Powell is mentioned in the hall of fame at his secondary school, Collingwood College, although he had a self-described "spectacular failure at university." He is also a former member of ''MENSA'' with an [[IQ]] of 174.

Powell has two cats in California called Sarah and Chani. In the United Kingdom he has four cats called Oscar, Daisy, Bill and Ben.

==On Neopets==

Powell's Neopets account is [http://www.neopets.com/randomfriend.phtml?user=borovan borovan], which is taken from a late-80s sketch on British Saturday morning TV featuring the comedians ''Trevor and Simon''. With this account, he enjoys the luxary of having 5 Neopets, +1 the maximum amount users are allowed to have.

References to Mr. Powell's craving for [[Asparagus]] exist throughout the Neopets website. The reason for this fascination, because he likes them or flaunts them because most people don't, is not known. All the same, if you type in "Asparagus" on the Neopets search engine, Adam will show up and say, "You can't have it, it's all MINE!" (also when users click on parts of certain games, small buttons pop up with a variation of this quote printed upon it). On Mr. Powell's birthday, every Neopet becomes asparagus! He also has 4 out of the 5 of his pets on his user account as Asparagus [[Chia]]s. The other is a Red [[Bori]], which is usually in its "sad" pose.

He is occasionally called '''Number Six''', a nickname taken from the 60s show ''The Prisoner'', and also has a [[Plushie]] named after him on the site. There is also a highly sought after [[Avatar]] related to him, to get this you must have exactly the same amount of [[Neopoint]]s as his account, viewable at the Neopets [http://www.neopets.com/aboutus.phtml About Us] page.

Adam visits the [[PinkPT|PPT Forum]] occasionally to interact with the users and keep tabs on how the populace view new features. He even sometimes lets the users see features before they are released! Often when he comes, he takes on board user suggestions on how to improve the website.

==External Links==

*User Account: [http://www.neopets.com/randomfriend.phtml?user=borovan borovan]
*Neopets Staff: [http://www.neopets.com/aboutus.phtml About Us]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/index.php?page=interview_adam PinkPT Interview with Powell]
*[http://www.collingwoodcollege.com/pages.php?fid=38&pid=235 Collingwood College biography]

[[Category: Neopets]]
[[Category: TNT]]