In Powerbucks Wheel of Fortune under the 6/36 · since Apr 2025 rules — 486 draws, 6 from 1–36.
72times drawn · chance expected 81 −1.10σ
17draws waiting · a wait this long: 5% for any number
6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 6.0
23longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long
23 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 72 times in 486 draws against 81.0 expected, −1.10σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
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Number 23, draw by draw
Drawn 72 times in 486 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 17 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 23 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 35 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 36. 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: 23 is drawn with probability 6/36 tonight whatever it did last week.