Number 23

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

93times drawn · chance expected 89 +0.52σ

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

4.7average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

22longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 93 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, +0.52σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 93 times in 443 draws · average wait 4.7 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 23 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 smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.2
3rd smallest9 · chance 7.9
4th smallest20 · chance 23.4
5th smallest29 · chance 33.4
6th smallest28 · chance 21.9
7th smallest6 · chance 5.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 16.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 18 32 17 25 4

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, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 23 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-27	9	5th	3 13 17 21 23 28 34
2026-06-25	7	4th	7 17 18 23 25 26 29
2026-05-07	5	4th	7 15 17 23 28 30 31

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

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