Number 14

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

97times drawn · chance expected 103 −0.59σ

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

14.6average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

97longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 97 times in 1,418 draws against 102.8 expected, −0.59σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 97 times in 1,418 draws · average wait 14.6 draws · longest completed wait 97 · 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 14 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 smallest49 · chance 40.6
2nd smallest37 · chance 40.6
3rd smallest10 · chance 13.8
4th smallest1 · chance 1.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 20 23 18 61 64

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 68 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 14 is picked about 1.06× as often as an indifferent choice — 16th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 14 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	5	3rd	11 13 14 21 65
2026-09-26	6	1st	14 40 52 55 57
2026-09-12	16	1st	14 16 23 58 69
2026-08-05	8	1st	14 20 59 60

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

2024-10-12	15	2nd	5 14 20 41 57
2024-09-07	50	1st	14 34 37 55 63
2024-05-13	4	2nd	5 14 29 38 66
2024-05-04	57	1st	14 20 23 53 69
2023-12-23	18	2nd	9 14 17 18 53
2023-11-11	1	3rd	1 12 14 24 57
2023-11-08	5	1st	14 21 33 39 62
2023-10-28	6	1st	14 24 50 59 64
2023-10-14	16	1st	14 16 42 48 64
2023-09-06	74	2nd	9 14 20 23 63
2023-03-18	24	1st	14 20 30 54 69
2023-01-21	2	2nd	5 14 19 46 64
2023-01-16	29	2nd	4 14 33 39 61
2022-11-09	12	2nd	7 14 24 30 56
2022-10-12	13	1st	14 30 41 42 59
2022-09-12	24	2nd	6 14 16 34 66
2022-07-18	4	1st	14 34 36 50 58
2022-07-09	15	1st	14 22 42 46 52
2022-06-04	6	1st	14 16 36 52 60
2022-05-21	9	1st	14 15 25 52 58
2022-04-30	7	1st	14 21 37 44 63
2022-04-13	35	1st	14 16 41 63 68
2022-01-22	5	2nd	8 14 33 36 67
2022-01-10	2	1st	14 17 18 21 27
2022-01-05	97	2nd	6 14 25 33 46
2021-04-10	4	1st	14 16 23 50 53
2021-03-27	20	2nd	6 14 38 39 65
2021-01-16	2	1st	14 20 39 65 67
2021-01-09	9	1st	14 26 38 45 46
2020-12-09	9	2nd	11 14 31 47 48
2020-11-07	11	1st	14 16 37 48 58
2020-09-30	3	1st	14 18 36 49 67
2020-09-19	12	2nd	11 14 23 47 57
2020-08-08	1	3rd	2 3 14 40 51
2020-08-05	7	2nd	7 14 17 57 65
2020-07-11	43	1st	14 19 61 62 64
2020-02-12	16	1st	14 47 54 55 68
2019-12-18	9	1st	14 18 26 39 68
2019-11-16	2	1st	14 22 26 55 63
2019-11-09	6	1st	14 17 35 38 60
2019-10-19	4	1st	14 27 29 59 65
2019-10-05	5	2nd	6 14 36 51 54
2019-09-18	5	1st	14 19 39 47 51
2019-08-31	9	1st	14 41 50 56 57
2019-07-31	11	1st	14 37 47 55 67
2019-06-22	2	4th	3 6 11 14 66
2019-06-15	25	3rd	8 11 14 16 49
2019-03-20	7	2nd	10 14 50 53 63
2019-02-23	3	3rd	4 6 14 20 32
2019-02-13	8	3rd	2 8 14 24 69
2019-01-16	11	1st	14 29 31 56 61
2018-12-08	5	1st	14 32 34 46 61
2018-11-21	11	2nd	7 14 23 38 55
2018-10-13	33	2nd	11 14 32 43 65
2018-06-20	13	2nd	4 14 23 27 56
2018-05-05	1	1st	14 29 36 57 61
2018-05-02	26	2nd	5 14 31 40 50
2018-01-31	5	3rd	4 7 14 46 59
2018-01-13	19	1st	14 25 35 58 69
2017-11-08	1	2nd	12 14 20 21 34
2017-11-04	4	2nd	12 14 26 48 51
2017-10-21	13	1st	14 41 42 45 69
2017-09-06	22	2nd	8 14 32 58 67
2017-06-21	20	1st	14 46 61 65 68
2017-04-12	18	2nd	8 14 61 63 68
2017-02-08	20	1st	14 20 42 49 66
2016-11-30	46	2nd	3 14 18 25 45
2016-06-22	21	1st	14 40 42 43 52
2016-04-09	9	1st	14 22 23 41 61
2016-03-09	25	1st	14 23 32 34 68
2015-12-12	3	2nd	2 14 19 30 62
2015-12-02	5	1st	14 18 19 32 64
2015-11-14	—	1st	14 22 37 45 66