Number 5

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

83times drawn · chance expected 89 −0.67σ

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

5.2average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

18longest completed wait · 85% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −0.67σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.2 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 5 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 smallest31 · chance 36.6
2nd smallest42 · chance 35.2
3rd smallest10 · chance 10.1
4th smallest0 · chance 1.0
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 14.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 19 7 14 33 9

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, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-16	1	2nd	4 5 13 14 15 22 28
2026-07-09	5	3rd	1 4 5 14 15 22 27
2026-06-04	1	2nd	3 5 12 27 32 33 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: 5 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

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