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Star 1 In Powerball under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 rules — 1,420 draws, 1 from 1–26.
Main numbers Stars 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009 5/53 + 1/42 · Oct 2002 – Aug 2005 5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002 5/45 + 1/45 · Apr 1992 – Nov 1997 59 times drawn · chance expected 55 +0.61σ
36 draws waiting · a wait this long: 25% for any number
23.8 average wait between appearances · chance says 26.0
111 longest completed wait · 54% chance of one at least that long
1 is drawn as often as chance explains Drawn 59 times in 1,420 draws against 54.6 expected, +0.61σ. Each draw is independent: after 36 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
1 Number 1, draw by draw Drawn 59 times in 1,420 draws · average wait 23.8 draws · longest completed wait 111 · waiting 36 draws now
1 draws: 2015-10-10 to 2015-10-14 16 draws: 2015-10-14 to 2015-12-09 84 draws: 2015-12-09 to 2016-09-28 1 draws: 2016-09-28 to 2016-10-01 52 draws: 2016-10-01 to 2017-04-01 61 draws: 2017-04-01 to 2017-11-01 64 draws: 2017-11-01 to 2018-06-13 11 draws: 2018-06-13 to 2018-07-21 51 draws: 2018-07-21 to 2019-01-16 9 draws: 2019-01-16 to 2019-02-16 18 draws: 2019-02-16 to 2019-04-20 17 draws: 2019-04-20 to 2019-06-19 5 draws: 2019-06-19 to 2019-07-06 14 draws: 2019-07-06 to 2019-08-24 111 draws: 2019-08-24 to 2020-09-16 2 draws: 2020-09-16 to 2020-09-23 42 draws: 2020-09-23 to 2021-02-17 22 draws: 2021-02-17 to 2021-05-05 14 draws: 2021-05-05 to 2021-06-23 23 draws: 2021-06-23 to 2021-09-04 12 draws: 2021-09-04 to 2021-10-02 2 draws: 2021-10-02 to 2021-10-06 18 draws: 2021-10-06 to 2021-11-17 13 draws: 2021-11-17 to 2021-12-18 57 draws: 2021-12-18 to 2022-04-30 53 draws: 2022-04-30 to 2022-08-31 7 draws: 2022-08-31 to 2022-09-17 44 draws: 2022-09-17 to 2022-12-28 41 draws: 2022-12-28 to 2023-04-03 12 draws: 2023-04-03 to 2023-05-01 21 draws: 2023-05-01 to 2023-06-19 25 draws: 2023-06-19 to 2023-08-16 9 draws: 2023-08-16 to 2023-09-06 12 draws: 2023-09-06 to 2023-10-04 28 draws: 2023-10-04 to 2023-12-09 10 draws: 2023-12-09 to 2024-01-01 48 draws: 2024-01-01 to 2024-04-22 9 draws: 2024-04-22 to 2024-05-13 24 draws: 2024-05-13 to 2024-07-08 68 draws: 2024-07-08 to 2024-12-14 3 draws: 2024-12-14 to 2024-12-21 4 draws: 2024-12-21 to 2024-12-30 31 draws: 2024-12-30 to 2025-03-12 9 draws: 2025-03-12 to 2025-04-02 5 draws: 2025-04-02 to 2025-04-14 2 draws: 2025-04-14 to 2025-04-19 52 draws: 2025-04-19 to 2025-08-18 12 draws: 2025-08-18 to 2025-09-15 19 draws: 2025-09-15 to 2025-10-29 13 draws: 2025-10-29 to 2025-11-29 1 draws: 2025-11-29 to 2025-12-01 11 draws: 2025-12-01 to 2025-12-27 23 draws: 2025-12-27 to 2026-02-18 12 draws: 2026-02-18 to 2026-03-18 2 draws: 2026-03-18 to 2026-03-23 5 draws: 2026-03-23 to 2026-04-04 6 draws: 2026-04-04 to 2026-04-18 41 draws: 2026-04-18 to 2026-07-22 Still waiting — at least 36 draws since 2026-07-22 2015-10-10 2015-10-14 2015-12-09 2016-09-28 2016-10-01 2017-04-01 2017-11-01 2018-06-13 2018-07-21 2019-01-16 2019-02-16 2019-04-20 2019-06-19 2019-07-06 2019-08-24 2020-09-16 2020-09-23 2021-02-17 2021-05-05 2021-06-23 2021-09-04 2021-10-02 2021-10-06 2021-11-17 2021-12-18 2022-04-30 2022-08-31 2022-09-17 2022-12-28 2023-04-03 2023-05-01 2023-06-19 2023-08-16 2023-09-06 2023-10-04 2023-12-09 2024-01-01 2024-04-22 2024-05-13 2024-07-08 2024-12-14 2024-12-21 2024-12-30 2025-03-12 2025-04-02 2025-04-14 2025-04-19 2025-08-18 2025-09-15 2025-10-29 2025-11-29 2025-12-01 2025-12-27 2026-02-18 2026-03-18 2026-03-23 2026-04-04 2026-04-18 2026-07-22 2015-10-07 2026-10-14
1 draws: 3 times 2 draws: 4 times 3 draws: 1 time 4 draws: 1 time 5 draws: 3 times 6 draws: 1 time 7 draws: 1 time 8 draws: 0 times 9 draws: 4 times 10 draws: 1 time 11 draws: 2 times 12 draws: 5 times 13 draws: 2 times 14 draws: 2 times 15 draws: 0 times 16 draws: 1 time 17 draws: 1 time 18 draws: 2 times 19 draws: 1 time 20 draws: 0 times 21 draws: 1 time 22 draws: 1 time 23 draws: 2 times 24 draws: 1 time 25 draws: 1 time 26 draws: 0 times 27 draws: 0 times 28 draws: 1 time 29 draws: 0 times 30 draws: 0 times 31 draws: 1 time 32 draws: 0 times 33 draws: 0 times 34 draws: 0 times 35 draws: 0 times 36 draws: 0 times 37 draws: 0 times 38 draws: 0 times 39 draws: 0 times 40 draws: 0 times 41 draws: 2 times 42 draws: 1 time 43 draws: 0 times 44 draws: 1 time 45 draws: 0 times 46 draws: 0 times 47 draws: 0 times 48 draws: 1 time 49 draws: 0 times 50 draws: 0 times 51 draws: 1 time 52 draws: 2 times 53 draws: 1 time 54 draws: 0 times 55 draws: 0 times 56 draws: 0 times 57 draws: 1 time 58 draws: 0 times 59 draws: 0 times 60 draws: 0 times 61 draws: 1 time 62 draws: 0 times 63 draws: 0 times 64 draws: 1 time 65 draws: 0 times 66 draws: 0 times 67 draws: 0 times 68 draws: 1 time 69 draws: 0 times 70 draws: 0 times 71 draws: 0 times 72 draws: 0 times 73 draws: 0 times 74 draws: 0 times 75 draws: 0 times 76 draws: 0 times 77 draws: 0 times 78 draws: 0 times 79 draws: 0 times 80 draws: 0 times 81 draws: 0 times 82 draws: 0 times 83 draws: 0 times 84 draws: 1 time 85 draws: 0 times 86 draws: 0 times 87 draws: 0 times 88 draws: 0 times 89 draws: 0 times 90 draws: 0 times 91 draws: 0 times 92 draws: 0 times 93 draws: 0 times 94 draws: 0 times 95 draws: 0 times 96 draws: 0 times 97 draws: 0 times 98 draws: 0 times 99 draws: 0 times 100 draws: 0 times 101 draws: 0 times 102 draws: 0 times 103 draws: 0 times 104 draws: 0 times 105 draws: 0 times 106 draws: 0 times 107 draws: 0 times 108 draws: 0 times 109 draws: 0 times 110 draws: 0 times 111 draws: 1 time 112 draws: 0 times its own waits draws between appearances 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 smallest 59 · chance 59.0 Every position’s lane →
The company it keeps No shared draws yet.
Never drawn alongside 25 of the other 25 numbers; chance expects about 25 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 26. 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 1 →
Every draw it appeared in The other 35 appearances Lowest in the pool Every number star 2 → 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 1/26 tonight whatever it did last week.