Number 10

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

86times drawn · chance expected 89 −0.31σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

24longest completed wait · 40% chance of one at least that long

10 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −0.31σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 10, draw by draw

Drawn 86 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 24 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 10 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 smallest14 · chance 11.3
2nd smallest33 · chance 30.6
3rd smallest24 · chance 29.1
4th smallest13 · chance 12.4
5th smallest2 · chance 2.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 15.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 20 21 7 12 19

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, 10 is picked about 1.41× as often as an indifferent choice — 5th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 10 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	1	3rd	7 8 10 12 15 19 20
2026-10-01	4	4th	2 3 6 10 11 16 24
2026-09-03	14	2nd	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: 10 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

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