Number 3

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

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

4.8average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

31longest completed wait · 11% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 93 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, +0.52σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 93 times in 443 draws · average wait 4.8 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 1 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 3 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 smallest65 · chance 62.7
2nd smallest23 · chance 27.9
3rd smallest5 · chance 2.5
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

14 32 11 13 17 22

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, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-01	1	2nd	2 3 6 10 11 16 24
2026-09-24	4	3rd	1 2 3 7 18 22 32
2026-08-27	1	1st	3 13 17 21 23 28 34

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

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