Number 9

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

92times drawn · chance expected 87 +0.62σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 73% for any number

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

42longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 92 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, +0.62σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 92 times in 865 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 4 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 9 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 smallest47 · chance 44.0
2nd smallest39 · chance 37.0
3rd smallest5 · chance 10.0
4th smallest0 · chance 1.0
5th smallest1 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 44 38 27 29 15

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, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-25	4	2nd	5 9 22 34 38
2026-09-11	16	1st	9 11 13 38 43
2026-07-17	1	2nd	6 9 31 37 42
2026-07-14	3	1st	9 13 21 36

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

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