Number 33

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

47times drawn · chance expected 58 −1.53σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 55% for any number

17.1average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

56longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 47 times in 804 draws against 58.3 expected, −1.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 47 times in 804 draws · average wait 17.1 draws · longest completed wait 56 · waiting 9 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 33 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 smallest5 · chance 3.4
2nd smallest8 · chance 13.2
3rd smallest16 · chance 18.0
4th smallest15 · chance 10.3
5th smallest3 · chance 2.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

38 64 20 15 23 31

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 4 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 33 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 35th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-19	11	3rd	13 30 33 49 53
2026-08-24	8	3rd	3 16 33 38 68
2026-08-05	1	2nd	6 33 54 63 66
2026-08-03	1	5th	11 15

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

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