Number 45

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

44times drawn · chance expected 58 −1.94σ

19draws waiting · a wait this long: 26% for any number

18.1average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

119longest completed wait · 0.6% chance of one at least that long

45 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 44 times in 804 draws against 58.3 expected, −1.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 19 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 45, draw by draw

Drawn 44 times in 804 draws · average wait 18.1 draws · longest completed wait 119 · waiting 19 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 45 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 smallest1 · chance 0.6
2nd smallest6 · chance 4.8
3rd smallest16 · chance 14.1
4th smallest11 · chance 17.2
5th smallest10 · chance 7.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

63 2 15 20 31 39

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 5 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 45 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 45 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-26	26	3rd	12 32 45 50 58
2026-06-27	30	5th	2 26 34 43 45
2026-04-18	4	3rd	2 38 45 53 63
2026-04-08	2	4th	4 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: 45 is drawn with probability 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-01-29	30	3rd	31 44 45 63 64
2023-11-20	1	4th	15 21 39 45 52
2023-11-18	11	4th	27 32 40 45 47
2023-10-23	21	3rd	25 44 45 50 58
2023-09-04	2	3rd	1 29 45 47 51
2023-08-30	30	3rd	2 10 45 46 59
2023-06-21	5	4th	15 18 23 45 48
2023-06-10	7	2nd	30 45 55 67 69
2023-05-24	33	5th	7 25 29 40 45
2023-03-08	11	5th	13 20 29 41 45
2023-02-11	8	1st	45 48 54 60 63
2023-01-23	104	4th	6 15 31 45 58
2022-05-25	1	5th	3 16 20 33 45
2022-05-23	6	2nd	33 45 60 62 65
2022-05-09	26	3rd	3 42 45 57 67
2022-03-09	18	4th	8 9 43 45 63
2022-01-26	2	5th	10 27 40 43 45
2022-01-22	42	4th	2 10 30 45 47
2021-10-16	19	5th	26 33 42 44 45
2021-09-01	—	3rd	23 35 45 59 63