In Powerball under the 5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 rules — 316 draws, 5 from 1–59 (an earlier era).
13times drawn · chance expected 27 −2.78σ
1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number
24.5average wait between appearances · chance says 11.8
55longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long
29 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 59 numbers
Drawn 13 times in 316 draws against 26.8 expected, −2.78σ. Testing all 59 numbers at once means about 0.6 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 1.7e-4 and this does not pass it.
29
Number 29, draw by draw
Drawn 13 times in 316 draws · average wait 24.5 draws · longest completed wait 55 · 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 29 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 58 numbers; chance expects about 24 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 29 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 59. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 29 is drawn with probability 5/59 tonight whatever it did last week.