Number 14

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

71times drawn · chance expected 87 −1.76σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

12.3average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

57longest completed wait · 17% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 71 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, −1.76σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 71 times in 865 draws · average wait 12.3 draws · longest completed wait 57 · 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 14 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 smallest18 · chance 19.7
2nd smallest38 · chance 31.1
3rd smallest14 · chance 16.5
4th smallest1 · chance 3.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 18 32 5 22 29

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, 14 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 14 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	11	2nd	3 14 17 19 37
2026-09-01	5	1st	14 16 31 34 40
2026-08-14	1	1st	14 15 19 39 44
2026-08-11	11	2nd	3 14 26 40

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: 14 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-04-16	57	2nd	6 14 26 32 41
2023-09-29	6	2nd	6 14 27 31 47
2023-09-08	13	3rd	5 8 14 35 36
2023-07-25	20	1st	14 24 25 44 48
2023-05-16	20	3rd	1 5 14 36 45
2023-03-07	2	2nd	8 14 15 27 49
2023-02-28	4	2nd	2 14 21 22 40
2023-02-14	4	2nd	8 14 18 21 49
2023-01-31	17	2nd	12 14 17 29 50
2022-12-02	13	2nd	12 14 28 31 34
2022-10-18	11	3rd	6 7 14 29 48
2022-09-09	11	2nd	9 14 22 35 47
2022-08-02	1	2nd	13 14 20 43 45
2022-07-29	3	2nd	7 14 28 32 36
2022-07-19	4	1st	14 18 29 46 47
2022-07-05	13	2nd	13 14 16 18 31
2022-05-20	2	2nd	2 14 19 24 39
2022-05-13	2	2nd	9 14 15 35 49
2022-05-06	17	2nd	4 14 30 34 38
2022-03-08	8	2nd	8 14 21 40 43
2022-02-08	5	3rd	1 4 14 39 49
2022-01-21	30	2nd	10 14 19 34 37
2021-10-08	4	2nd	4 14 18 24 38
2021-09-24	44	1st	14 17 24 31 43
2021-04-23	26	2nd	5 14 19 30 35
2021-01-22	38	2nd	11 14 36 37 44
2020-09-08	27	3rd	12 13 14 36 50
2020-06-05	16	1st	14 23 28 40 48
2020-04-10	3	2nd	7 14 22 24 41
2020-03-31	12	1st	14 20 28 43 49
2020-02-18	5	1st	14 17 20 36 49
2020-01-31	1	2nd	11 14 18 29 34
2020-01-28	2	1st	14 18 31 36 49
2020-01-21	8	1st	14 18 32 42 49
2019-12-24	25	1st	14 18 29 41 46
2019-09-27	8	1st	14 16 18 22 39
2019-08-30	4	2nd	8 14 36 40 47
2019-08-16	5	3rd	3 10 14 31 41
2019-07-30	14	2nd	1 14 29 32 38
2019-06-11	9	2nd	11 14 15 38 47
2019-05-10	23	1st	14 22 23 39 43
2019-02-19	18	1st	14 18 21 26 35
2018-12-18	8	3rd	3 5 14 20 32
2018-11-20	29	1st	14 32 33 37 47
2018-08-10	3	3rd	3 10 14 43 50
2018-07-31	5	3rd	3 6 14 34 36
2018-07-13	—	2nd	13 14 34 38 45