Number 6

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

89times drawn · chance expected 89 +0.05σ

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

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

27longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 89 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, +0.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 89 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 27 · 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 6 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 smallest29 · chance 31.4
2nd smallest38 · chance 39.3
3rd smallest20 · chance 15.7
4th smallest2 · chance 2.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
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 15.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 2 20 16 11 14

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, 6 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 6 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-01	7	3rd	2 3 6 10 11 16 24
2026-08-13	6	1st	6 11 15 17 26 27 35
2026-07-02	2	1st	6 12 17 22 24 30 32

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

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