Number 37

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

0draws waiting — it came up last time

11.2average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

41longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, −0.96σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 865 draws · average wait 11.2 draws · longest completed wait 41 · 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 37 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 0.3
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.8
3rd smallest13 · chance 18.1
4th smallest43 · chance 34.2
5th smallest19 · chance 21.7

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.

17 19 27 10 31 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, 37 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 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	9	5th	3 14 17 19 37
2026-09-08	11	4th	4 8 13 37 49
2026-07-31	4	3rd	10 11 37 45 46
2026-07-17	6	4th	6 9 31 37

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

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