Number 9

In Powerball Double Play under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Aug 2021 rules — 805 draws, 5 from 1–69.

70times drawn · chance expected 58 +1.59σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

11.2average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

46longest completed wait · 91% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 70 times in 805 draws against 58.3 expected, +1.59σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 70 times in 805 draws · average wait 11.2 draws · longest completed wait 46 · waiting 7 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 9 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 smallest47 · chance 41.9
2nd smallest22 · chance 23.5
3rd smallest1 · chance 4.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 4.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

26 37 41 51 57 21

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 68 numbers; chance expected about 1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-26	2	1st	9 23 31 59 69
2026-09-21	5	2nd	3 9 16 26 32
2026-09-09	21	1st	9 40 42 55 65
2026-07-22	10	1st	9 51

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

2025-05-07	10	1st	9 31 32 50 57
2025-04-14	18	1st	9 18 41 42 63
2025-03-03	4	1st	9 34 54 67 69
2025-02-22	11	1st	9 18 26 35 57
2025-01-27	25	2nd	1 9 34 63 67
2024-11-30	9	1st	9 21 37 43 61
2024-11-09	25	1st	9 28 40 55 57
2024-09-11	6	2nd	6 9 15 17 20
2024-08-28	5	1st	9 11 31 52 54
2024-08-17	10	1st	9 12 25 51 56
2024-07-24	19	2nd	4 9 20 47 51
2024-06-10	11	1st	9 15 27 32 65
2024-05-15	24	2nd	8 9 29 57 65
2024-03-20	2	2nd	7 9 10 26 43
2024-03-16	11	1st	9 11 13 29 69
2024-02-19	19	1st	9 18 30 47 63
2024-01-06	1	1st	9 14 26 27 32
2024-01-03	8	2nd	8 9 17 31 56
2023-12-16	7	1st	9 39 41 46 65
2023-11-29	1	1st	9 13 16 30 36
2023-11-27	11	1st	9 29 51 53 61
2023-11-01	46	1st	9 26 49 58 61
2023-07-17	15	1st	9 37 38 62 69
2023-06-12	16	1st	9 15 22 54 64
2023-05-06	5	2nd	1 9 20 21 55
2023-04-24	1	1st	9 18 24 30 58
2023-04-22	1	1st	9 10 50 62 63
2023-04-19	15	1st	9 17 22 24 31
2023-03-15	38	2nd	7 9 46 64 68
2022-12-17	20	2nd	6 9 10 19 28
2022-10-31	1	1st	9 14 52 57 62
2022-10-29	3	1st	9 13 31 35 37
2022-10-22	15	1st	9 21 30 49 51
2022-09-17	6	1st	9 23 37 41 55
2022-09-03	12	2nd	4 9 15 33 46
2022-08-06	8	1st	9 19 30 40 48
2022-07-18	6	1st	9 29 39 43 56
2022-07-04	14	1st	9 41 55 57 60
2022-06-01	6	1st	9 20 22 39 47
2022-05-18	30	1st	9 27 41 59 64
2022-03-09	13	2nd	8 9 43 45 63
2022-02-07	22	1st	9 20 27 47 55
2021-12-18	4	1st	9 16 37 57 66
2021-12-08	18	2nd	2 9 51 63 68
2021-10-27	7	1st	9 17 21 26 35
2021-10-11	—	1st	9 39 44 49 60