Star 13

In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 444 draws, 1 from 1–20.

21times drawn · chance expected 22 −0.26σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 81% for any number

21.8average wait between appearances · chance says 20.0

42longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 21 times in 444 draws against 22.2 expected, −0.26σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 21 times in 444 draws · average wait 21.8 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 5 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest21 · chance 21.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

No shared draws yet.

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 19 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers 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 — 20th most popular of 20. 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
2026-09-10	8	1st	13
2026-07-16	35	1st	13
2025-11-13	1	1st	13
2025-11-06	28	1st	13
2025-04-24	39	1st	13
2024-07-25	41	1st	13
2023-10-12	35	1st	13
2023-02-09	28	1st	13
2022-07-28	19	1st	13

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 1/20 tonight whatever it did last week.