Number 46

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

88times drawn · chance expected 87 +0.17σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

9.9average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

51longest completed wait · 36% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 88 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, +0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 88 times in 865 draws · average wait 9.9 draws · longest completed wait 51 · waiting 1 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 46 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.1
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.5
4th smallest28 · chance 23.6
5th smallest57 · chance 61.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

35 18 48 20 32 45

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-06	19	5th	12 18 21 35 46
2026-07-31	23	5th	10 11 37 45 46
2026-05-12	39	5th	25 30 32 33 46
2025-12-26	1	4th	18 20 35 46

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

2024-01-19	5	5th	11 18 20 41 46
2024-01-02	9	4th	9 20 23 46 50
2023-12-01	1	4th	16 18 44 46 48
2023-11-28	5	5th	4 17 25 26 46
2023-11-10	5	5th	3 18 21 37 46
2023-10-24	10	5th	1 10 33 37 46
2023-09-19	1	5th	15 18 36 43 46
2023-09-15	11	5th	3 21 28 35 46
2023-08-08	2	5th	17 18 26 39 46
2023-08-01	10	5th	1 16 30 38 46
2023-06-27	27	5th	7 21 33 45 46
2023-03-24	12	5th	6 27 33 45 46
2023-02-10	10	5th	3 5 21 42 46
2023-01-06	4	5th	6 20 31 37 46
2022-12-23	3	5th	3 12 13 18 46
2022-12-13	14	5th	16 23 36 43 46
2022-10-25	8	5th	20 23 27 39 46
2022-09-27	1	5th	4 32 39 40 46
2022-09-23	19	4th	9 25 42 46 47
2022-07-19	9	4th	14 18 29 46 47
2022-06-17	1	4th	4 22 32 46 48
2022-06-14	2	4th	5 23 26 46 48
2022-06-07	6	5th	4 7 35 41 46
2022-05-17	6	5th	15 24 32 35 46
2022-04-26	8	5th	2 20 38 43 46
2022-03-29	7	5th	1 20 35 42 46
2022-03-04	13	4th	9 17 33 46 49
2022-01-18	4	5th	9 36 44 45 46
2022-01-04	4	5th	3 19 38 45 46
2021-12-21	51	3rd	13 35 46 47 50
2021-06-25	22	5th	4 16 34 36 46
2021-04-09	6	5th	18 31 39 45 46
2021-03-19	21	5th	5 16 27 32 46
2021-01-05	18	4th	4 17 42 46 48
2020-10-30	1	4th	4 27 36 46 49
2020-10-27	12	5th	19 25 41 45 46
2020-09-15	13	5th	3 18 32 40 46
2020-07-31	6	4th	6 18 30 46 48
2020-07-10	11	4th	11 16 44 46 50
2020-06-02	8	5th	5 15 29 41 46
2020-05-05	4	4th	6 22 41 46 49
2020-04-21	2	4th	8 13 21 46 50
2020-04-14	6	5th	6 11 25 31 46
2020-03-24	12	5th	4 12 41 45 46
2020-02-11	14	5th	9 22 40 43 46
2019-12-24	26	5th	14 18 29 41 46
2019-09-24	15	5th	6 34 35 36 46
2019-08-02	6	4th	5 31 45 46 47
2019-07-12	2	3rd	29 35 46 47 48
2019-07-05	4	4th	28 37 39 46 47
2019-06-21	5	4th	8 15 28 46 49
2019-06-04	5	4th	10 16 22 46 50
2019-05-17	1	5th	9 19 29 31 46
2019-05-14	4	5th	15 18 34 44 46
2019-04-30	2	4th	1 3 20 46 48
2019-04-23	12	4th	10 35 37 46 48
2019-03-12	3	4th	8 27 40 46 48
2019-03-01	15	4th	24 29 34 46 49
2019-01-08	2	5th	2 15 35 44 46
2019-01-01	10	3rd	42 44 46 47 48
2018-11-27	15	5th	12 27 39 41 46
2018-10-05	4	4th	32 36 42 46 49
2018-09-21	21	5th	28 32 39 43 46
2018-07-10	—	5th	1 31 34 38 46