Number 7

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

96times drawn · chance expected 103 −0.69σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

14.7average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

80longest completed wait · 22% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 1,418 draws against 102.8 expected, −0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 1,418 draws · average wait 14.7 draws · longest completed wait 80 · waiting 8 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 7 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 smallest66 · chance 65.8
2nd smallest24 · chance 26.7
3rd smallest5 · chance 3.3
4th smallest1 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 24 1 36 40 47

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, 7 is picked about 1.21× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.08

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-21	29	2nd	2 7 9 17 58
2026-07-15	43	2nd	2 7 18 29 38
2026-04-06	3	1st	7 24 37 42 57
2026-03-30	2	1st	7 11 31 41

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

2024-07-10	22	1st	7 11 12 27 46
2024-05-20	5	2nd	1 7 48 64 68
2024-05-08	1	1st	7 41 43 44 51
2024-05-06	9	1st	7 23 24 56 60
2024-04-15	1	1st	7 16 41 56 61
2024-04-13	1	1st	7 33 40 43 69
2024-04-10	7	2nd	6 7 12 24 36
2024-03-25	6	1st	7 11 19 53 68
2024-03-11	19	3rd	1 3 7 16 66
2024-01-27	8	1st	7 38 65 66 68
2024-01-08	44	1st	7 17 28 40 45
2023-09-27	30	2nd	1 7 46 47 63
2023-07-19	5	1st	7 10 11 13 24
2023-07-08	80	1st	7 23 24 32 43
2023-01-02	6	1st	7 9 12 31 62
2022-12-19	13	1st	7 37 55 65 67
2022-11-19	4	1st	7 28 62 63 64
2022-11-09	22	1st	7 14 24 30 56
2022-09-19	6	1st	7 15 36 46 67
2022-09-05	2	2nd	4 7 32 55 64
2022-08-31	46	1st	7 8 19 24 28
2022-05-16	2	1st	7 15 22 36 64
2022-05-11	13	2nd	5 7 61 63 69
2022-04-11	5	2nd	5 7 24 31 34
2022-03-30	13	2nd	3 7 21 31 37
2022-02-28	29	1st	7 21 39 47 55
2021-12-22	6	1st	7 16 19 48 68
2021-12-08	7	2nd	3 7 33 50 69
2021-11-22	14	1st	7 20 29 38 67
2021-10-20	9	1st	7 29 36 41 43
2021-09-29	21	2nd	2 7 11 17 32
2021-08-07	19	1st	7 24 36 54 60
2021-06-02	35	2nd	6 7 11 66 67
2021-01-30	22	3rd	1 2 7 52 61
2020-11-14	29	1st	7 15 18 32 45
2020-08-05	2	1st	7 14 17 57 65
2020-07-29	12	1st	7 29 35 40 45
2020-06-17	12	1st	7 10 63 64 68
2020-05-06	11	1st	7 8 35 50 65
2020-03-28	6	1st	7 40 48 55 66
2020-03-07	17	1st	7 15 21 33 62
2020-01-08	14	3rd	2 4 7 43 56
2019-11-20	38	1st	7 15 39 40 57
2019-07-10	14	1st	7 9 26 44 68
2019-05-22	2	1st	7 10 20 44 57
2019-05-15	27	1st	7 17 33 61 68
2019-02-09	8	4th	1 2 3 7 39
2019-01-12	2	1st	7 36 48 57 58
2019-01-05	13	2nd	3 7 15 27 69
2018-11-21	2	1st	7 14 23 38 55
2018-11-14	4	1st	7 42 49 62 69
2018-10-31	10	1st	7 25 39 40 47
2018-09-26	10	3rd	1 2 7 30 50
2018-08-22	14	2nd	1 7 45 47 69
2018-07-04	2	2nd	4 7 15 41 44
2018-06-27	36	1st	7 28 37 62 63
2018-02-21	6	1st	7 15 31 34 36
2018-01-31	6	2nd	4 7 14 46 59
2018-01-10	39	1st	7 24 33 49 50
2017-08-26	1	1st	7 15 32 38 66
2017-08-23	8	2nd	6 7 16 23 26
2017-07-26	45	1st	7 19 21 42 69
2017-02-18	25	2nd	3 7 9 31 33
2016-11-23	17	1st	7 32 41 47 61
2016-09-24	6	1st	7 15 20 29 41
2016-09-03	12	1st	7 39 50 59 67
2016-07-23	18	2nd	5 7 23 35 39
2016-05-21	27	2nd	5 7 9 23 32
2016-02-17	1	1st	7 17 27 29 40
2016-02-13	19	1st	7 15 18 19 36
2015-12-09	9	1st	7 10 16 46 56
2015-11-07	—	1st	7 16 25 50 53