Number 1

In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 443 draws, 7 from 1–35.

87times drawn · chance expected 89 −0.19σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 80% for any number

5.1average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

31longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 87 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 87 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.1 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 2 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 1 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest87 · chance 87.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 15.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 19 12 16 26 11

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 35. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-24	1	1st	1 2 3 7 18 22 32
2026-09-17	2	1st	1 8 15 17 19 22 34
2026-09-03	8	1st	1 10 11 14 16 19 32

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 1 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-12-26	4	1st	1 3 9 18 20 28 29
2024-11-28	5	1st	1 4 9 10 22 26 31
2024-10-24	10	1st	1 5 8 9 14 22 33
2024-08-15	8	1st	1 8 11 12 16 18 28
2024-06-20	5	1st	1 11 17 20 23 30 32
2024-05-16	1	1st	1 2 9 12 13 14 18
2024-05-09	5	1st	1 3 6 12 16 18 32
2024-04-04	9	1st	1 7 10 19 20 25 31
2024-02-01	1	1st	1 12 23 26 32 33 35
2024-01-25	8	1st	1 4 6 9 21 26 27
2023-11-30	2	1st	1 2 11 19 23 30 34
2023-11-16	4	1st	1 7 8 11 29 31 32
2023-10-19	1	1st	1 3 4 6 7 24 26
2023-10-12	10	1st	1 6 10 20 21 31 35
2023-08-03	5	1st	1 7 13 18 23 25 33
2023-06-29	10	1st	1 3 5 8 18 24 28
2023-04-20	12	1st	1 12 13 18 24 30 32
2023-01-26	6	1st	1 15 21 28 30 31 33
2022-12-15	4	1st	1 7 19 21 22 26 34
2022-11-17	5	1st	1 5 6 7 14 19 33
2022-10-13	8	1st	1 13 16 18 25 31 35
2022-08-18	5	1st	1 2 4 20 22 23 27
2022-07-14	2	1st	1 6 17 20 26 33 35
2022-06-30	9	1st	1 6 11 16 17 22 29
2022-04-28	23	1st	1 7 12 16 19 24 25
2021-11-18	1	1st	1 3 5 8 13 19 34
2021-11-11	8	1st	1 2 3 4 15 17 20
2021-09-16	15	1st	1 8 9 22 30 31 32
2021-06-03	7	1st	1 11 12 14 17 19 28
2021-04-15	2	1st	1 5 9 12 17 19 24
2021-04-01	3	1st	1 7 13 23 25 26 27
2021-03-11	1	1st	1 8 14 17 19 21 26
2021-03-04	3	1st	1 6 7 18 22 28 33
2021-02-11	4	1st	1 7 16 20 26 29 32
2021-01-14	2	1st	1 2 17 20 26 27 31
2020-12-31	4	1st	1 2 7 8 11 16 28
2020-12-03	2	1st	1 12 15 17 21 28 29
2020-11-19	3	1st	1 7 12 13 26 30 34
2020-10-29	1	1st	1 2 10 16 24 28 31
2020-10-22	4	1st	1 5 6 10 16 19 31
2020-09-24	3	1st	1 3 8 11 13 31 32
2020-09-03	9	1st	1 3 9 13 17 23 32
2020-07-02	3	1st	1 6 10 15 16 21 26
2020-06-11	1	1st	1 14 17 22 26 28 33
2020-06-04	9	1st	1 5 10 12 17 20 27
2020-04-02	1	1st	1 3 14 17 19 22 26
2020-03-26	1	1st	1 12 14 16 21 27 29
2020-03-19	3	1st	1 10 11 12 18 20 27
2020-02-27	1	1st	1 9 16 17 22 24 31
2020-02-20	2	1st	1 3 12 13 21 26 31
2020-02-06	11	1st	1 2 3 11 15 26 35
2019-11-21	4	1st	1 2 3 12 13 23 25
2019-10-24	11	1st	1 7 11 12 19 24 30
2019-08-08	2	1st	1 5 11 16 17 29 30
2019-07-25	1	1st	1 3 9 11 22 23 24
2019-07-18	5	1st	1 6 11 13 16 23 27
2019-06-13	4	1st	1 5 8 11 17 23 25
2019-05-16	4	1st	1 11 13 17 24 34 35
2019-04-18	31	1st	1 2 4 11 17 21 30
2018-09-13	6	1st	1 2 17 19 22 34 35
2018-08-02	1	1st	1 3 9 17 22 32 34
2018-07-26	12	1st	1 7 8 22 28 31 32
2018-05-03	—	1st	1 3 6 16 19 20 24