Number 13

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

78times drawn · chance expected 89 −1.26σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 33% for any number

5.7average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

27longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −1.26σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.7 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 6 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 13 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 smallest7 · chance 4.3
2nd smallest17 · chance 18.3
3rd smallest21 · chance 28.0
4th smallest21 · chance 19.6
5th smallest10 · chance 6.6
6th smallest2 · chance 1.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 25 21 23 1 9

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, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st 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
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-27	1	2nd	3 13 17 21 23 28 34
2026-08-20	2	4th	3 9 11 13 14 22 29
2026-08-06	3	2nd	9 13 15 16 26 30 35

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: 13 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

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