Number 29

In Powerball Double Play under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Aug 2021 rules — 804 draws, 5 from 1–69.

68times drawn · chance expected 58 +1.32σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

11.9average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

56longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 68 times in 804 draws against 58.3 expected, +1.32σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 68 times in 804 draws · average wait 11.9 draws · longest completed wait 56 · drawn in the most recent draw

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.

1st smallest7 · chance 7.6
2nd smallest26 · chance 23.1
3rd smallest22 · chance 24.6
4th smallest12 · chance 10.9
5th smallest1 · chance 1.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 4.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

65 56 35 43 23 1

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 1 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 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 ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-10	2	2nd	1 29 34 39 62
2026-10-05	14	3rd	7 22 29 35 51
2026-09-02	8	3rd	3 10 29 58 64
2026-08-15	3	4th	5 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: 29 is drawn with probability 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

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