Number 5

In Powerball under the 6/40 + 1/10 · since Nov 2011 rules — 1,350 draws, 6 from 1–40.

195times drawn · chance expected 203 −0.57σ

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

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 6.7

32longest completed wait · 72% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 195 times in 1,350 draws against 202.5 expected, −0.57σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 195 times in 1,350 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 32 · 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 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 smallest101 · chance 109.9
2nd smallest77 · chance 70.9
3rd smallest16 · chance 13.3
4th smallest1 · chance 0.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 25.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 33 28 1 24 12

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 39 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 40. 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
2026-10-03	2	3rd	3 4 5 17 18 36
2026-09-26	5	1st	5 12 19 21 24 38
2026-08-29	19	2nd	2 5 20 24 25 31
2026-06-24	9	1st	5

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 6/40 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-01-22	19	2nd	1 5 10 16 20 25
2024-11-16	4	2nd	3 5 12 19 28 39
2024-11-02	5	1st	5 13 21 29 33 39
2024-10-16	6	1st	5 6 11 17 18 40
2024-09-25	2	3rd	2 3 5 17 27 30
2024-09-18	7	2nd	1 5 8 19 34 37
2024-08-24	3	1st	5 10 14 19 25 38
2024-08-14	31	1st	5 12 24 25 29 32
2024-04-27	2	2nd	4 5 6 12 16 21
2024-04-20	4	1st	5 23 26 30 32 33
2024-04-06	6	2nd	2 5 6 10 21 30
2024-03-16	1	1st	5 7 17 20 33 38
2024-03-13	3	1st	5 15 23 24 30 36
2024-03-02	1	2nd	1 5 6 28 29 40
2024-02-28	3	1st	5 13 26 28 30 34
2024-02-17	2	1st	5 6 10 22 24 34
2024-02-10	5	1st	5 10 17 28 33 40
2024-01-24	3	2nd	3 5 12 13 26 40
2024-01-13	1	1st	5 7 9 12 15 27
2024-01-10	12	2nd	4 5 12 13 28 34
2023-11-29	5	3rd	2 3 5 9 14 36
2023-11-11	10	1st	5 19 23 31 39 40
2023-10-07	6	1st	5 25 28 34 36 38
2023-09-16	4	1st	5 13 20 32 34 35
2023-09-02	4	2nd	1 5 6 20 36 39
2023-08-19	15	1st	5 18 26 28 31 39
2023-06-28	10	2nd	4 5 8 15 31 33
2023-05-24	14	1st	5 17 28 30 33 38
2023-04-05	3	1st	5 14 17 25 28 38
2023-03-25	3	2nd	4 5 8 19 28 31
2023-03-15	7	3rd	3 4 5 24 33 39
2023-02-18	2	2nd	4 5 16 20 22 33
2023-02-11	5	1st	5 14 28 32 34 36
2023-01-25	3	1st	5 11 12 18 24 30
2023-01-14	3	1st	5 20 28 29 32 38
2023-01-04	7	1st	5 9 13 16 23 25
2022-12-10	4	1st	5 7 9 19 24 36
2022-11-26	21	2nd	3 5 27 29 31 38
2022-09-14	2	2nd	4 5 18 27 31 34
2022-09-07	6	1st	5 12 19 21 26 38
2022-08-17	8	2nd	1 5 11 20 27 32
2022-07-20	8	1st	5 19 22 24 25 28
2022-06-22	3	2nd	2 5 9 22 29 34
2022-06-11	2	3rd	3 4 5 21 24 40
2022-06-04	1	1st	5 10 19 30 31 36
2022-06-01	5	2nd	2 5 6 9 25 35
2022-05-14	2	2nd	3 5 7 18 31 35
2022-05-07	1	1st	5 14 16 24 31 39
2022-05-04	6	1st	5 19 21 26 28 31
2022-04-13	4	2nd	4 5 31 32 39 40
2022-03-30	1	2nd	4 5 6 15 22 40
2022-03-26	1	2nd	2 5 11 20 23 25
2022-03-23	3	2nd	1 5 16 23 24 39
2022-03-12	1	1st	5 22 23 26 28 34
2022-03-09	1	1st	5 13 15 16 28 39
2022-03-05	5	1st	5 6 12 18 25 27
2022-02-16	3	1st	5 7 33 34 38 40
2022-02-05	11	1st	5 11 12 22 33 39
2021-12-29	1	1st	5 7 12 13 39 40
2021-12-25	5	3rd	1 3 5 11 12 38
2021-12-08	9	1st	5 10 12 28 32 36
2021-11-06	2	1st	5 18 20 26 31 37
2021-10-30	5	1st	5 7 8 17 21 40
2021-10-13	1	1st	5 19 21 28 30 39
2021-10-09	4	2nd	1 5 13 28 33 37
2021-09-25	11	1st	5 16 19 23 33 40
2021-08-18	8	2nd	1 5 18 23 32 40
2021-07-21	1	1st	5 7 28 29 33 38
2021-07-17	4	2nd	3 5 8 11 32 36
2021-07-03	20	2nd	4 5 12 21 22 40
2021-04-24	27	2nd	4 5 21 26 31 36
2021-01-20	6	1st	5 6 9 11 17 38
2020-12-30	3	2nd	2 5 9 24 26 28
2020-12-19	2	1st	5 16 31 37 39 40
2020-12-12	6	2nd	1 5 9 18 21 35
2020-11-21	5	1st	5 6 7 15 19 36
2020-11-04	6	1st	5 12 21 22 25 39
2020-10-14	1	2nd	1 5 16 21 31 34
2020-10-10	9	2nd	1 5 20 31 32 33
2020-09-09	1	2nd	1 5 15 21 24 36
2020-09-05	9	1st	5 10 14 18 24 30
2020-08-05	24	1st	5 9 19 20 22 24
2020-05-13	5	1st	5 6 18 20 29 33
2020-04-25	1	1st	5 12 19 22 25 38
2020-04-22	4	1st	5 7 8 16 31 33
2020-04-08	10	1st	5 11 20 25 26 40
2020-03-04	13	1st	5 14 30 36 39 40
2020-01-18	23	2nd	1 5 20 24 34 37
2019-10-30	4	1st	5 7 10 11 36 39
2019-10-16	2	1st	5 7 14 17 22 29
2019-10-09	3	1st	5 15 22 27 29 38
2019-09-28	1	1st	5 13 15 36 37 39
2019-09-25	7	2nd	3 5 15 21 22 31
2019-08-31	12	3rd	2 4 5 24 30 37
2019-07-20	3	2nd	4 5 13 22 24 28
2019-07-10	1	1st	5 12 28 33 35 38
2019-07-06	9	2nd	2 5 17 31 33 37
2019-06-05	6	1st	5 17 26 27 28 39
2019-05-15	14	1st	5 13 14 21 27 37
2019-03-27	12	1st	5 7 10 13 17 37
2019-02-13	17	2nd	2 5 6 26 27 31
2018-12-15	3	1st	5 7 18 22 29 40
2018-12-05	14	2nd	1 5 18 23 24 25
2018-10-17	1	1st	5 10 17 21 26 33
2018-10-13	7	3rd	1 4 5 9 26 34
2018-09-19	8	2nd	3 5 7 9 11 13
2018-08-22	5	2nd	2 5 10 15 25 28
2018-08-04	1	1st	5 16 22 29 32 37
2018-08-01	4	2nd	4 5 21 22 31 34
2018-07-18	1	2nd	2 5 13 24 33 39
2018-07-14	12	1st	5 14 17 18 19 33
2018-06-02	10	1st	5 7 8 12 14 29
2018-04-28	22	2nd	4 5 11 16 36 40
2018-02-10	3	3rd	2 4 5 22 30 33
2018-01-31	15	1st	5 10 11 16 31 39
2017-12-09	3	2nd	4 5 8 15 16 22
2017-11-29	2	1st	5 9 14 17 24 31
2017-11-22	5	1st	5 8 12 18 28 36
2017-11-04	4	2nd	3 5 12 25 28 40
2017-10-21	5	1st	5 13 15 22 24 29
2017-10-04	20	3rd	2 3 5 21 33 37
2017-07-26	4	2nd	4 5 12 21 34 40
2017-07-12	7	1st	5 18 21 26 30 32
2017-06-17	5	2nd	3 5 6 7 33 37
2017-05-31	7	3rd	1 2 5 9 12 36
2017-05-06	15	2nd	4 5 11 23 26 34
2017-03-15	2	2nd	1 5 23 32 38 40
2017-03-08	6	4th	2 3 4 5 13 36
2017-02-15	16	2nd	3 5 28 29 32 36
2016-12-21	5	2nd	1 5 13 26 30 32
2016-12-03	15	1st	5 6 10 15 28 37
2016-10-12	4	2nd	1 5 11 12 14 15
2016-09-28	5	2nd	3 5 15 27 37 38
2016-09-10	9	1st	5 10 11 15 18 38
2016-08-10	5	2nd	4 5 11 14 31 36
2016-07-23	6	1st	5 6 9 21 25 33
2016-07-02	24	1st	5 6 13 20 28 39
2016-04-09	6	2nd	1 5 9 22 30 35
2016-03-19	4	2nd	1 5 7 12 24 38
2016-03-05	1	2nd	1 5 8 17 29 35
2016-03-02	2	1st	5 11 21 22 26 35
2016-02-24	1	2nd	2 5 17 19 20 29
2016-02-20	5	1st	5 11 20 22 31 33
2016-02-03	5	1st	5 10 11 14 15 18
2016-01-16	4	1st	5 26 33 34 38 40
2016-01-02	5	2nd	1 5 22 24 30 32
2015-12-16	4	2nd	4 5 14 18 19 21
2015-12-02	5	1st	5 14 15 18 21 27
2015-11-14	32	2nd	3 5 9 10 15 40
2015-05-16	8	3rd	1 3 5 31 32 38
2015-03-21	3	1st	5 8 14 17 20 33
2015-02-28	2	1st	5 6 25 30 31 40
2015-02-14	8	2nd	1 5 16 20 30 34
2014-12-20	3	1st	5 20 22 29 33 37
2014-11-29	11	3rd	1 2 5 23 28 39
2014-09-13	18	1st	5 7 14 19 21 27
2014-05-10	21	3rd	3 4 5 9 24 35
2013-12-14	6	1st	5 15 20 32 33 39
2013-11-02	7	2nd	1 5 12 15 21 29
2013-09-14	5	2nd	2 5 11 19 30 31
2013-08-10	4	1st	5 21 23 27 30 38
2013-07-13	23	2nd	3 5 13 19 22 32
2013-02-02	2	1st	5 6 13 19 24 39
2013-01-19	20	1st	5 19 21 32 36 39
2012-09-01	12	2nd	1 5 15 26 33 35
2012-06-09	9	1st	5 6 7 10 17 24
2012-04-07	1	1st	5 21 24 27 30 35
2012-03-31	2	2nd	4 5 21 24 35 40
2012-03-17	9	2nd	4 5 11 18 33 40
2012-01-14	9	3rd	1 3 5 16 19 34
2011-11-12	—	3rd	1 2 5 6 8 18