Number 11

In PowerBall under the 5/50 + 1/20 · since Jun 2018 rules — 865 draws, 5 from 1–50.

78times drawn · chance expected 87 −0.96σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number

10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

69longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

11 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, −0.96σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 11, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 865 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 69 · waiting 8 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 11 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 smallest27 · chance 30.3
2nd smallest32 · chance 33.6
3rd smallest14 · chance 12.3
4th smallest4 · chance 1.7
5th smallest1 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 41 2 5 20 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 11 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 50. 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 11 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-11	12	2nd	9 11 13 38 43
2026-07-31	37	2nd	10 11 37 45 46
2026-03-24	1	1st	11 13 19 22 39
2026-03-20	4	3rd	5 8 11 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: 11 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-07-28	22	3rd	2 6 11 20 47
2023-05-12	69	2nd	5 11 30 40 47
2022-09-13	5	3rd	1 10 11 20 33
2022-08-26	1	2nd	3 11 17 23 45
2022-08-23	38	2nd	10 11 17 29 40
2022-04-12	3	1st	11 15 28 34 42
2022-04-01	6	1st	11 17 21 37 47
2022-03-11	10	2nd	5 11 24 37 47
2022-02-04	3	3rd	2 10 11 23 24
2022-01-25	9	2nd	3 11 29 32 36
2021-12-24	8	3rd	6 10 11 29 41
2021-11-26	7	3rd	5 7 11 19 38
2021-11-02	16	1st	11 24 25 26 38
2021-09-07	3	2nd	2 11 13 19 40
2021-08-27	19	3rd	6 10 11 45 47
2021-06-22	10	2nd	3 11 24 33 41
2021-05-18	18	2nd	4 11 30 35 45
2021-03-16	4	1st	11 20 21 32 36
2021-03-02	9	2nd	1 11 21 32 42
2021-01-29	2	2nd	2 11 16 22 47
2021-01-22	3	1st	11 14 36 37 44
2021-01-12	1	1st	11 13 28 36 37
2021-01-08	14	1st	11 16 28 32 41
2020-11-17	1	1st	11 12 36 37 38
2020-11-13	20	2nd	1 11 16 19 24
2020-09-04	6	3rd	2 3 11 12 43
2020-08-14	2	2nd	10 11 16 25 30
2020-08-07	4	1st	11 30 42 45 48
2020-07-24	4	3rd	4 6 11 27 34
2020-07-10	3	1st	11 16 44 46 50
2020-06-30	1	2nd	2 11 27 36 39
2020-06-26	21	1st	11 20 21 34 50
2020-04-14	12	2nd	6 11 25 31 46
2020-03-03	9	1st	11 17 18 27 44
2020-01-31	2	1st	11 14 18 29 34
2020-01-24	3	2nd	5 11 26 48 49
2020-01-14	13	3rd	9 10 11 32 43
2019-11-29	1	2nd	6 11 21 25 49
2019-11-26	4	3rd	2 8 11 13 32
2019-11-12	17	4th	3 5 10 11 25
2019-09-13	3	4th	8 9 10 11 42
2019-09-03	2	2nd	6 11 16 31 34
2019-08-27	2	5th	4 5 9 10 11
2019-08-20	20	1st	11 19 20 39 41
2019-06-11	1	1st	11 14 15 38 47
2019-06-07	5	2nd	4 11 21 22 45
2019-05-21	12	2nd	3 11 15 33 43
2019-04-09	2	2nd	5 11 13 28 38
2019-04-02	1	1st	11 29 35 38 41
2019-03-29	6	3rd	3 6 11 13 31
2019-03-08	4	4th	4 5 7 11 22
2019-02-22	38	4th	7 9 10 11 40
2018-10-12	10	3rd	1 2 11 19 44
2018-09-07	—	2nd	9 11 20 28 44