Number 50

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

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number

9.9average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

76longest completed wait · 3% chance of one at least that long

50 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 88 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, +0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 50, draw by draw

Drawn 88 times in 865 draws · average wait 9.9 draws · longest completed wait 76 · waiting 5 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 50 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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest88 · chance 88.0

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.

10 13 18 24 21 3

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, 50 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 50 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-22	2	5th	2 28 31 38 50
2026-09-15	3	5th	7 23 25 27 50
2026-09-04	13	5th	4 7 27 38 50
2026-07-21	8	5th	15 40 41 47

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

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