Number 33

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

76times drawn · chance expected 87 −1.19σ

31draws waiting · a wait this long: 4% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

57longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, −1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 31 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 865 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 57 · waiting 31 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 33 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 smallest0 · chance 0.9
2nd smallest5 · chance 7.8
3rd smallest32 · chance 24.2
4th smallest28 · chance 30.2
5th smallest11 · chance 12.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 32 20 3 22 43

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, 33 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-06-23	5	4th	16 25 32 33 50
2026-06-05	7	3rd	2 16 33 37 43
2026-05-12	22	4th	25 30 32 33 46
2026-02-24	7	3rd	19 23 33 34

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

2024-05-03	1	3rd	28 31 33 37 44
2024-04-30	13	4th	5 8 14 33 36
2024-03-15	5	5th	4 9 20 22 33
2024-02-27	3	3rd	12 13 33 39 43
2024-02-16	11	2nd	18 33 35 46 48
2024-01-09	9	4th	12 20 24 33 43
2023-12-08	7	5th	2 22 24 32 33
2023-11-14	6	4th	10 24 30 33 44
2023-10-24	15	3rd	1 10 33 37 46
2023-09-01	13	4th	1 3 8 33 49
2023-07-18	6	3rd	5 21 33 45 50
2023-06-27	2	3rd	7 21 33 45 46
2023-06-20	19	3rd	20 24 33 44 48
2023-04-14	3	3rd	16 20 33 37 44
2023-04-04	3	4th	15 18 29 33 35
2023-03-24	23	3rd	6 27 33 45 46
2023-01-03	1	3rd	2 21 33 39 42
2022-12-30	9	4th	5 8 27 33 48
2022-11-29	13	4th	4 6 8 33 38
2022-10-14	2	4th	6 17 22 33 37
2022-10-07	7	4th	3 12 16 33 45
2022-09-13	8	5th	1 10 11 20 33
2022-08-16	21	2nd	21 33 40 42 48
2022-06-03	1	5th	12 17 20 21 33
2022-05-31	25	5th	1 5 17 24 33
2022-03-04	9	3rd	9 17 33 46 49
2022-02-01	9	2nd	31 33 37 40 43
2021-12-31	38	3rd	27 30 33 38 49
2021-08-20	3	3rd	6 21 33 37 50
2021-08-10	6	5th	1 4 12 13 33
2021-07-20	8	3rd	7 32 33 40 42
2021-06-22	7	4th	3 11 24 33 41
2021-05-28	57	2nd	31 33 36 38 44
2020-11-06	9	3rd	6 9 33 40 44
2020-10-06	13	5th	6 21 25 29 33
2020-08-21	18	3rd	13 32 33 40 41
2020-06-19	53	4th	21 28 29 33 48
2019-12-17	3	3rd	15 27 33 38 48
2019-12-06	46	3rd	12 19 33 34 49
2019-06-28	1	4th	3 13 16 33 41
2019-06-25	2	3rd	3 32 33 38 40
2019-06-18	6	5th	2 3 17 20 33
2019-05-28	2	4th	15 21 25 33 43
2019-05-21	18	4th	3 11 15 33 43
2019-03-19	6	4th	3 16 32 33 36
2019-02-26	23	5th	10 20 28 31 33
2018-12-07	1	4th	3 6 22 33 47
2018-12-04	4	4th	5 13 20 33 34
2018-11-20	1	3rd	14 32 33 37 47
2018-11-16	32	4th	20 24 32 33 35
2018-07-27	2	4th	4 15 19 33 36
2018-07-20	—	4th	9 21 22 33 39