Number 49

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

99times drawn · chance expected 87 +1.42σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 43% for any number

8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

69longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 99 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, +1.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 99 times in 865 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 69 · waiting 9 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 49 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest8 · chance 8.1
5th smallest91 · chance 90.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 29 2 3 12 13

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, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-08	5	5th	4 8 13 37 49
2026-08-21	23	5th	2 4 5 24 49
2026-06-02	32	5th	2 10 22 28 49
2026-02-10	2	5th	17 23 25 39

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

2024-06-21	1	5th	9 29 30 33 49
2024-06-18	1	5th	9 13 18 45 49
2024-06-14	44	5th	19 24 40 45 49
2024-01-12	4	5th	15 29 36 45 49
2023-12-29	11	5th	17 21 38 48 49
2023-11-21	10	5th	3 13 24 45 49
2023-10-17	2	5th	5 18 29 36 49
2023-10-10	1	5th	7 15 19 20 49
2023-10-06	10	5th	19 21 25 41 49
2023-09-01	30	5th	1 3 8 33 49
2023-05-19	8	5th	3 16 22 42 49
2023-04-21	3	5th	2 3 6 12 49
2023-04-11	3	5th	4 30 38 43 49
2023-03-31	1	5th	7 20 41 42 49
2023-03-28	6	5th	10 22 27 42 49
2023-03-07	6	5th	8 14 15 27 49
2023-02-14	2	5th	8 14 18 21 49
2023-02-07	69	5th	3 4 23 32 49
2022-06-10	8	5th	12 25 26 27 49
2022-05-13	1	5th	9 14 15 35 49
2022-05-10	19	5th	22 38 42 48 49
2022-03-04	3	5th	9 17 33 46 49
2022-02-22	3	5th	18 29 31 32 49
2022-02-11	1	5th	9 18 34 36 49
2022-02-08	7	5th	1 4 14 39 49
2022-01-14	4	5th	12 22 26 29 49
2021-12-31	1	5th	27 30 33 38 49
2021-12-28	5	4th	2 13 16 49 50
2021-12-10	8	5th	23 24 27 48 49
2021-11-12	4	5th	2 24 27 41 49
2021-10-29	1	5th	29 42 45 47 49
2021-10-26	7	5th	8 15 19 27 49
2021-10-01	20	5th	24 25 38 40 49
2021-07-23	10	5th	21 45 47 48 49
2021-06-18	12	5th	3 8 19 28 49
2021-05-07	3	5th	4 7 19 20 49
2021-04-27	2	5th	1 8 22 29 49
2021-04-20	1	5th	3 5 12 32 49
2021-04-16	21	5th	2 5 12 25 49
2021-02-02	14	5th	6 13 22 34 49
2020-12-11	4	5th	13 18 25 36 49
2020-11-27	8	5th	13 29 34 36 49
2020-10-30	14	5th	4 27 36 46 49
2020-09-11	7	5th	1 4 10 12 49
2020-08-18	10	5th	6 22 30 39 49
2020-07-14	10	5th	20 21 28 48 49
2020-06-09	10	4th	5 37 43 49 50
2020-05-05	1	5th	6 22 41 46 49
2020-05-01	9	5th	12 20 43 48 49
2020-03-31	4	5th	14 20 28 43 49
2020-03-17	5	5th	16 29 34 38 49
2020-02-28	3	4th	1 31 37 49 50
2020-02-18	1	5th	14 17 20 36 49
2020-02-14	5	4th	2 19 40 49 50
2020-01-28	1	5th	14 18 31 36 49
2020-01-24	1	5th	5 11 26 48 49
2020-01-21	4	5th	14 18 32 42 49
2020-01-07	2	5th	4 8 18 35 49
2019-12-31	7	4th	22 31 44 49 50
2019-12-06	2	5th	12 19 33 34 49
2019-11-29	4	5th	6 11 21 25 49
2019-11-15	6	5th	13 15 31 37 49
2019-10-25	11	5th	2 21 29 37 49
2019-09-17	3	5th	13 21 23 35 49
2019-09-06	17	5th	2 20 25 40 49
2019-07-09	5	5th	9 12 28 44 49
2019-06-21	16	5th	8 15 28 46 49
2019-04-26	12	5th	13 16 19 43 49
2019-03-15	3	5th	19 36 40 45 49
2019-03-05	1	5th	1 18 24 48 49
2019-03-01	26	5th	24 29 34 46 49
2018-11-30	7	5th	12 15 25 29 49
2018-11-06	9	4th	10 20 48 49 50
2018-10-05	27	5th	32 36 42 46 49
2018-07-03	—	4th	3 38 48 49 50