In Powerball Double Play under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Aug 2021 rules — 810 draws, 5 from 1–69.
58times drawn · chance expected 59 −0.09σ
10draws waiting · a wait this long: 51% for any number
14.0average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8
72longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long
27 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 58 times in 810 draws against 58.7 expected, −0.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
27
Number 27, draw by draw
Drawn 58 times in 810 draws · average wait 14.0 draws · longest completed wait 72 · waiting 10 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 27 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 4 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 2 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 69. 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: 27 is drawn with probability 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.