Powerball · every number · star deck
7
Star 7 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 48 times drawn · chance expected 55 −0.91σ
7 draws waiting · a wait this long: 79% for any number
29.9 average wait between appearances · chance says 26.0
139 longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long
7 is drawn as often as chance explains Drawn 48 times in 1,420 draws against 54.6 expected, −0.91σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
7 Number 7, draw by draw Drawn 48 times in 1,420 draws · average wait 29.9 draws · longest completed wait 139 · waiting 7 draws now
64 draws: 2015-10-31 to 2016-06-11 45 draws: 2016-06-11 to 2016-11-16 4 draws: 2016-11-16 to 2016-11-30 78 draws: 2016-11-30 to 2017-08-30 11 draws: 2017-08-30 to 2017-10-07 19 draws: 2017-10-07 to 2017-12-13 13 draws: 2017-12-13 to 2018-01-27 14 draws: 2018-01-27 to 2018-03-17 19 draws: 2018-03-17 to 2018-05-23 3 draws: 2018-05-23 to 2018-06-02 11 draws: 2018-06-02 to 2018-07-11 26 draws: 2018-07-11 to 2018-10-10 66 draws: 2018-10-10 to 2019-05-29 36 draws: 2019-05-29 to 2019-10-02 27 draws: 2019-10-02 to 2020-01-04 70 draws: 2020-01-04 to 2020-09-05 29 draws: 2020-09-05 to 2020-12-16 16 draws: 2020-12-16 to 2021-02-10 112 draws: 2021-02-10 to 2022-01-01 18 draws: 2022-01-01 to 2022-02-12 50 draws: 2022-02-12 to 2022-06-08 3 draws: 2022-06-08 to 2022-06-15 28 draws: 2022-06-15 to 2022-08-20 13 draws: 2022-08-20 to 2022-09-19 1 draws: 2022-09-19 to 2022-09-21 21 draws: 2022-09-21 to 2022-11-09 10 draws: 2022-11-09 to 2022-12-03 28 draws: 2022-12-03 to 2023-02-06 7 draws: 2023-02-06 to 2023-02-22 15 draws: 2023-02-22 to 2023-03-29 32 draws: 2023-03-29 to 2023-06-12 17 draws: 2023-06-12 to 2023-07-22 29 draws: 2023-07-22 to 2023-09-27 19 draws: 2023-09-27 to 2023-11-11 21 draws: 2023-11-11 to 2023-12-30 74 draws: 2023-12-30 to 2024-06-19 3 draws: 2024-06-19 to 2024-06-26 15 draws: 2024-06-26 to 2024-07-31 21 draws: 2024-07-31 to 2024-09-18 39 draws: 2024-09-18 to 2024-12-18 12 draws: 2024-12-18 to 2025-01-15 139 draws: 2025-01-15 to 2025-12-06 7 draws: 2025-12-06 to 2025-12-22 60 draws: 2025-12-22 to 2026-05-11 38 draws: 2026-05-11 to 2026-08-08 17 draws: 2026-08-08 to 2026-09-16 5 draws: 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-28 Still waiting — at least 7 draws since 2026-09-28 2015-10-31 2016-06-11 2016-11-16 2016-11-30 2017-08-30 2017-10-07 2017-12-13 2018-01-27 2018-03-17 2018-05-23 2018-06-02 2018-07-11 2018-10-10 2019-05-29 2019-10-02 2020-01-04 2020-09-05 2020-12-16 2021-02-10 2022-01-01 2022-02-12 2022-06-08 2022-06-15 2022-08-20 2022-09-19 2022-09-21 2022-11-09 2022-12-03 2023-02-06 2023-02-22 2023-03-29 2023-06-12 2023-07-22 2023-09-27 2023-11-11 2023-12-30 2024-06-19 2024-06-26 2024-07-31 2024-09-18 2024-12-18 2025-01-15 2025-12-06 2025-12-22 2026-05-11 2026-08-08 2026-09-16 2026-09-28 2015-10-07 2026-10-14 a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap
1 draws: 1 time 2 draws: 0 times 3 draws: 3 times 4 draws: 1 time 5 draws: 1 time 6 draws: 0 times 7 draws: 2 times 8 draws: 0 times 9 draws: 0 times 10 draws: 1 time 11 draws: 2 times 12 draws: 1 time 13 draws: 2 times 14 draws: 1 time 15 draws: 2 times 16 draws: 1 time 17 draws: 2 times 18 draws: 1 time 19 draws: 3 times 20 draws: 0 times 21 draws: 3 times 22 draws: 0 times 23 draws: 0 times 24 draws: 0 times 25 draws: 0 times 26 draws: 1 time 27 draws: 1 time 28 draws: 2 times 29 draws: 2 times 30 draws: 0 times 31 draws: 0 times 32 draws: 1 time 33 draws: 0 times 34 draws: 0 times 35 draws: 0 times 36 draws: 1 time 37 draws: 0 times 38 draws: 1 time 39 draws: 1 time 40 draws: 0 times 41 draws: 0 times 42 draws: 0 times 43 draws: 0 times 44 draws: 0 times 45 draws: 1 time 46 draws: 0 times 47 draws: 0 times 48 draws: 0 times 49 draws: 0 times 50 draws: 1 time 51 draws: 0 times 52 draws: 0 times 53 draws: 0 times 54 draws: 0 times 55 draws: 0 times 56 draws: 0 times 57 draws: 0 times 58 draws: 0 times 59 draws: 0 times 60 draws: 1 time 61 draws: 0 times 62 draws: 0 times 63 draws: 0 times 64 draws: 1 time 65 draws: 0 times 66 draws: 1 time 67 draws: 0 times 68 draws: 0 times 69 draws: 0 times 70 draws: 1 time 71 draws: 0 times 72 draws: 0 times 73 draws: 0 times 74 draws: 1 time 75 draws: 0 times 76 draws: 0 times 77 draws: 0 times 78 draws: 1 time 79 draws: 0 times 80 draws: 0 times 81 draws: 0 times 82 draws: 0 times 83 draws: 0 times 84 draws: 0 times 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: 0 times 112 draws: 1 time 113 draws: 0 times 114 draws: 0 times 115 draws: 0 times 116 draws: 0 times 117 draws: 0 times 118 draws: 0 times 119 draws: 0 times 120 draws: 0 times 121 draws: 0 times 122 draws: 0 times 123 draws: 0 times 124 draws: 0 times 125 draws: 0 times 126 draws: 0 times 127 draws: 0 times 128 draws: 0 times 129 draws: 0 times 130 draws: 0 times 131 draws: 0 times 132 draws: 0 times 133 draws: 0 times 134 draws: 0 times 135 draws: 0 times 136 draws: 0 times 137 draws: 0 times 138 draws: 0 times 139 draws: 1 time 140 draws: 0 times its own waits draws between appearances 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 smallest 48 · chance 48.0 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, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.15 The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →
Every draw it appeared in The other 24 appearances ← star 6 Every number star 8 → 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 1/26 tonight whatever it did last week.