Number 1

In Powerball under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 rules — 1,418 draws, 5 from 1–69.

94times drawn · chance expected 103 −0.90σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

14.2average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

72longest completed wait · 36% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 94 times in 1,418 draws against 102.8 expected, −0.90σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 1,418 draws · average wait 14.2 draws · longest completed wait 72 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 1 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 smallest94 · chance 94.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 2 3 57 27 7

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 68 numbers; chance expected about 0.3 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.12× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 69. 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 ×1.14
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.06

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-10	57	1st	1 4 19 33 51
2026-05-30	72	1st	1 27 35 44 52
2025-12-13	4	1st	1 28 31 57 58
2025-12-03	28	1st	1 14 20 46

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: 1 is drawn with probability 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-02-05	5	1st	1 2 27 30 67
2024-01-24	19	1st	1 5 32 50 64
2023-12-11	13	1st	1 24 27 31 62
2023-11-11	3	1st	1 12 14 24 57
2023-11-04	7	1st	1 28 30 34 52
2023-10-18	9	1st	1 4 13 35 58
2023-09-27	2	1st	1 7 46 47 63
2023-09-23	8	1st	1 12 20 33 66
2023-09-04	7	1st	1 26 32 46 51
2023-08-19	41	1st	1 25 27 38 62
2023-05-15	13	1st	1 26 28 55 58
2023-04-15	11	1st	1 33 34 56 59
2023-03-20	21	1st	1 27 32 47 67
2023-01-30	29	1st	1 4 12 36 49
2022-11-23	1	1st	1 2 31 39 66
2022-11-21	50	1st	1 6 40 51 67
2022-07-27	28	1st	1 25 44 55 57
2022-05-23	27	1st	1 33 37 39 42
2022-03-21	59	1st	1 15 26 63 65
2021-11-03	12	1st	1 2 24 50 57
2021-10-06	9	1st	1 17 52 58 64
2021-09-15	17	1st	1 4 18 46 62
2021-07-31	2	1st	1 21 22 34 47
2021-07-24	4	1st	1 4 11 59 67
2021-07-10	17	1st	1 5 29 54 62
2021-05-12	11	1st	1 19 20 38 54
2021-04-03	4	1st	1 12 17 39 53
2021-03-20	9	1st	1 6 22 42 61
2021-02-17	3	1st	1 15 21 32 46
2021-02-06	2	1st	1 16 48 49 65
2021-01-30	7	1st	1 2 7 52 61
2021-01-06	22	1st	1 20 22 60 66
2020-10-21	14	1st	1 3 13 44 56
2020-09-02	25	1st	1 4 11 20 69
2020-06-06	1	1st	1 17 38 68 69
2020-06-03	11	1st	1 3 26 41 64
2020-04-25	1	1st	1 3 21 47 57
2020-04-22	31	1st	1 33 35 40 69
2020-01-04	23	1st	1 11 21 25 54
2019-10-16	7	1st	1 5 25 63 67
2019-09-21	16	1st	1 9 22 36 68
2019-07-27	9	1st	1 19 31 48 61
2019-06-26	9	1st	1 5 16 22 54
2019-05-25	5	1st	1 2 39 43 66
2019-05-08	6	1st	1 45 53 64 66
2019-04-17	13	1st	1 15 17 46 66
2019-03-02	6	1st	1 19 25 27 68
2019-02-09	36	1st	1 2 3 7 39
2018-10-06	3	1st	1 22 27 53 67
2018-09-26	10	1st	1 2 7 30 50
2018-08-22	10	1st	1 7 45 47 69
2018-07-18	3	1st	1 10 27 28 36
2018-07-07	12	1st	1 10 43 45 64
2018-05-26	30	1st	1 21 31 45 49
2018-02-10	14	1st	1 13 27 41 59
2017-12-23	1	1st	1 3 13 15 44
2017-12-20	20	1st	1 20 61 64 69
2017-10-11	20	1st	1 3 13 19 69
2017-08-02	1	1st	1 16 54 63 69
2017-07-29	5	1st	1 28 40 45 48
2017-07-12	22	1st	1 2 18 23 61
2017-04-26	2	1st	1 15 18 26 51
2017-04-19	11	1st	1 19 37 40 52
2017-03-11	17	1st	1 26 41 50 57
2017-01-11	3	1st	1 3 13 16 43
2016-12-31	4	1st	1 3 28 57 67
2016-12-17	11	1st	1 8 16 40 48
2016-11-09	5	1st	1 25 28 31 54
2016-10-22	9	1st	1 28 33 55 56
2016-09-21	—	1st	1 28 63 67 69