Number 4

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

87times drawn · chance expected 89 −0.19σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 9% for any number

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

18longest completed wait · 86% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 87 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 87 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 12 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 4 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 smallest55 · chance 47.6
2nd smallest27 · chance 33.0
3rd smallest4 · chance 6.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.3
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 15.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

18 14 5 25 9 23

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, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-16	1	1st	4 5 13 14 15 22 28
2026-07-09	10	2nd	1 4 5 14 15 22 27
2026-04-30	1	1st	4 13 16 17 21 24 27

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

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