In Powerball under the 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 rules — 267 draws, 6 from 1–40 (an earlier era).
31times drawn · chance expected 40 −1.55σ
7draws waiting · a wait this long: 38% for any number
8.2average wait between appearances · chance says 6.7
25longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long
11 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 31 times in 267 draws against 40.0 expected, −1.55σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
11
Number 11, draw by draw
Drawn 31 times in 267 draws · average wait 8.2 draws · longest completed wait 25 · 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 11 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 39 numbers; chance expects about 0.7 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 11 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 40. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 11 is drawn with probability 6/40 tonight whatever it did last week.