Number 7

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

67times drawn · chance expected 58 +1.19σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 93% for any number

12.0average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

70longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 67 times in 804 draws against 58.3 expected, +1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 67 times in 804 draws · average wait 12.0 draws · longest completed wait 70 · waiting 2 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 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 smallest45 · chance 45.9
2nd smallest19 · chance 18.7
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 3.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

39 59 11 19 42 67

Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 1 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 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
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

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-05	1	1st	7 22 29 35 51
2026-10-03	36	2nd	1 7 26 37 52
2026-07-11	17	2nd	5 7 17 26 28
2026-06-01	14	2nd	2 7

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 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-04-02	2	1st	7 18 23 31 44
2025-03-29	4	1st	7 11 14 26 59
2025-03-19	19	1st	7 15 36 40 56
2025-02-03	7	1st	7 38 39 42 55
2025-01-18	14	1st	7 34 40 48 57
2024-12-16	3	2nd	2 7 15 21 56
2024-12-09	19	1st	7 17 28 44 54
2024-10-26	2	2nd	1 7 25 27 57
2024-10-21	3	3rd	2 3 7 26 34
2024-10-14	7	1st	7 29 31 41 54
2024-09-28	70	2nd	6 7 17 20 57
2024-04-17	4	1st	7 8 25 39 68
2024-04-08	8	1st	7 40 45 58 61
2024-03-20	19	1st	7 9 10 26 43
2024-02-05	5	2nd	1 7 35 52 54
2024-01-24	6	1st	7 28 46 47 58
2024-01-10	35	2nd	2 7 27 34 51
2023-10-21	14	1st	7 18 27 33 61
2023-09-18	7	2nd	3 7 41 48 67
2023-09-02	43	2nd	3 7 14 26 52
2023-05-24	25	1st	7 25 29 40 45
2023-03-27	5	1st	7 11 46 49 60
2023-03-15	2	1st	7 9 46 64 68
2023-03-11	4	1st	7 16 22 36 58
2023-03-01	67	1st	7 12 16 17 39
2022-09-26	3	1st	7 15 39 54 59
2022-09-19	8	1st	7 11 23 27 38
2022-08-31	26	1st	7 15 21 41 56
2022-07-02	4	2nd	4 7 22 57 59
2022-06-22	2	1st	7 31 39 51 53
2022-06-18	14	1st	7 18 23 30 53
2022-05-16	19	1st	7 12 34 35 67
2022-04-02	8	2nd	6 7 41 57 61
2022-03-14	5	1st	7 8 11 19 40
2022-03-02	3	2nd	1 7 10 32 56
2022-02-23	16	1st	7 11 19 34 59
2022-01-17	1	1st	7 19 33 38 64
2022-01-15	6	1st	7 16 24 53 62
2022-01-01	15	3rd	4 6 7 10 30
2021-11-27	2	1st	7 11 19 31 58
2021-11-22	26	1st	7 22 27 39 50
2021-09-22	5	2nd	6 7 36 41 59
2021-09-11	—	1st	7 39 54 64 67