Number 7

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

75times drawn · chance expected 87 −1.30σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 53% for any number

11.3average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

69longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 75 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, −1.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 75 times in 865 draws · average wait 11.3 draws · longest completed wait 69 · waiting 7 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 7 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest42 · chance 43.7
2nd smallest28 · chance 26.2
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.8
4th smallest1 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 16 38 13 19 20

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, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
The number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-15	3	1st	7 23 25 27 50
2026-09-04	5	2nd	4 7 27 38 50
2026-08-18	19	2nd	3 7 20 31 39
2026-06-12	62	1st	7 23 27 30

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

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