Number 5

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

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

14.9average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

62longest completed wait · 61% chance of one at least that long

5 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 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 1,418 draws · average wait 14.9 draws · longest completed wait 62 · waiting 7 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 smallest84 · chance 73.3
2nd smallest10 · chance 19.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.4
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 39 9 29 69 22

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 0.3 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-23	17	1st	5 15 26 29 30
2026-08-15	3	1st	5 8 27 29 63
2026-08-08	7	1st	5 9 35 54 63
2026-07-22	4	2nd	4 5 22 50

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 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

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