Number 39

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

79times drawn · chance expected 58 +2.82σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

48longest completed wait · 90% chance of one at least that long

39 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 69 numbers

Drawn 79 times in 804 draws against 58.3 expected, +2.82σ. Testing all 69 numbers at once means about 0.7 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 1.4e-4 and this does not pass it.

Number 39, draw by draw

Drawn 79 times in 804 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 48 · 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 39 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest2 · chance 2.7
2nd smallest11 · chance 15.0
3rd smallest37 · chance 29.7
4th smallest20 · chance 24.6
5th smallest9 · chance 7.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 4.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 15 47 12 25 67

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 68 numbers; chance expected about 0.7 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 39 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 39 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-10	14	4th	1 29 34 39 62
2026-09-07	21	4th	15 19 28 39 56
2026-07-20	3	3rd	15 21 39 54 67
2026-07-13	6	4th	1 17

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

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