In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 444 draws, 1 from 1–20.
17times drawn · chance expected 22 −1.13σ
2draws waiting · a wait this long: 95% for any number
27.4average wait between appearances · chance says 20.0
117longest completed wait · 4% chance of one at least that long
14 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 17 times in 444 draws against 22.2 expected, −1.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
14
Number 14, draw by draw
Drawn 17 times in 444 draws · average wait 27.4 draws · longest completed wait 117 · 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 14 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
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, 14 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 14th 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.
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: 14 is drawn with probability 1/20 tonight whatever it did last week.