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Powerball Double Play · every number · star deck

18

Star 18

In Powerball Double Play under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Aug 2021 rules — 811 draws, 1 from 1–26.

Main numbersStars
30times drawn · chance expected 31 −0.22σ
12draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number
26.3average wait between appearances · chance says 26.0
73longest completed wait · 83% chance of one at least that long
18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 30 times in 811 draws against 31.2 expected, −0.22σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

18

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 30 times in 811 draws · average wait 26.3 draws · longest completed wait 73 · waiting 12 draws now

30 draws: 2021-11-15 to 2022-01-2412 draws: 2022-01-24 to 2022-02-212 draws: 2022-02-21 to 2022-02-2649 draws: 2022-02-26 to 2022-06-202 draws: 2022-06-20 to 2022-06-256 draws: 2022-06-25 to 2022-07-095 draws: 2022-07-09 to 2022-07-2031 draws: 2022-07-20 to 2022-10-017 draws: 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-179 draws: 2022-10-17 to 2022-11-0773 draws: 2022-11-07 to 2023-04-2613 draws: 2023-04-26 to 2023-05-2771 draws: 2023-05-27 to 2023-11-0813 draws: 2023-11-08 to 2023-12-0920 draws: 2023-12-09 to 2024-01-2410 draws: 2024-01-24 to 2024-02-1762 draws: 2024-02-17 to 2024-07-1046 draws: 2024-07-10 to 2024-10-2634 draws: 2024-10-26 to 2025-01-1351 draws: 2025-01-13 to 2025-05-1215 draws: 2025-05-12 to 2025-06-1631 draws: 2025-06-16 to 2025-08-2758 draws: 2025-08-27 to 2026-01-1038 draws: 2026-01-10 to 2026-04-0816 draws: 2026-04-08 to 2026-05-164 draws: 2026-05-16 to 2026-05-2531 draws: 2026-05-25 to 2026-08-0510 draws: 2026-08-05 to 2026-08-2913 draws: 2026-08-29 to 2026-09-28Still waiting — at least 12 draws since 2026-09-282021-11-152022-01-242022-02-212022-02-262022-06-202022-06-252022-07-092022-07-202022-10-012022-10-172022-11-072023-04-262023-05-272023-11-082023-12-092024-01-242024-02-172024-07-102024-10-262025-01-132025-05-122025-06-162025-08-272026-01-102026-04-082026-05-162026-05-252026-08-052026-08-292026-09-282021-08-232026-10-26

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 0 times2 draws: 2 times3 draws: 0 times4 draws: 1 time5 draws: 1 time6 draws: 1 time7 draws: 1 time8 draws: 0 times9 draws: 1 time10 draws: 2 times11 draws: 0 times12 draws: 1 time13 draws: 3 times14 draws: 0 times15 draws: 1 time16 draws: 1 time17 draws: 0 times18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 0 times20 draws: 1 time21 draws: 0 times22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 times25 draws: 0 times26 draws: 0 times27 draws: 0 times28 draws: 0 times29 draws: 0 times30 draws: 1 time31 draws: 3 times32 draws: 0 times33 draws: 0 times34 draws: 1 time35 draws: 0 times36 draws: 0 times37 draws: 0 times38 draws: 1 time39 draws: 0 times40 draws: 0 times41 draws: 0 times42 draws: 0 times43 draws: 0 times44 draws: 0 times45 draws: 0 times46 draws: 1 time47 draws: 0 times48 draws: 0 times49 draws: 1 time50 draws: 0 times51 draws: 1 time52 draws: 0 times53 draws: 0 times54 draws: 0 times55 draws: 0 times56 draws: 0 times57 draws: 0 times58 draws: 1 time59 draws: 0 times60 draws: 0 times61 draws: 0 times62 draws: 1 time63 draws: 0 times64 draws: 0 times65 draws: 0 times66 draws: 0 times67 draws: 0 times68 draws: 0 times69 draws: 0 times70 draws: 0 times71 draws: 1 time72 draws: 0 times73 draws: 1 time74 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 18 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 smallest30 · chance 30.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

No shared draws yet.

Never drawn alongside 25 of the other 25 numbers; chance expects about 25 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 18 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 14th most popular of 26. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 18 →

Every draw it appeared in

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-09-28131st18
2026-08-29101st18
2026-08-05311st18
2026-05-2541st18
2026-05-16161st18
2026-04-08381st18
2026-01-10581st18
2025-08-27311st18
2025-06-16151st18
2025-05-12511st18
2025-01-13341st18
2024-10-26461st18
2024-07-10621st18
2024-02-17101st18
2024-01-24201st18
2023-12-09131st18
2023-11-08711st18
2023-05-27131st18
2023-04-26731st18
2022-11-0791st18
2022-10-1771st18
2022-10-01311st18
2022-07-2051st18
2022-07-0961st18
The other 6 appearances
2022-06-2521st18
2022-06-20491st18
2022-02-2621st18
2022-02-21121st18
2022-01-24301st18
2021-11-15—1st18
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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: 18 is drawn with probability 1/26 tonight whatever it did last week.