Number 33

In PowerBall under the 5/45 + 1/20 · Oct 2009 – Jun 2018 rules — 896 draws, 5 from 1–45 (an earlier era).

86times drawn · chance expected 100 −1.44σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 62% for any number

10.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.0

55longest completed wait · 14% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 896 draws against 99.6 expected, −1.44σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 86 times in 896 draws · average wait 10.4 draws · longest completed wait 55 · waiting 5 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 33 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 smallest1 · chance 0.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest18 · chance 20.7
4th smallest40 · chance 37.7
5th smallest23 · chance 22.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 10 20 26 23 44

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 33 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2018-06-05	7	4th	10 13 28 33 45
2018-05-11	7	3rd	8 22 33 40 43
2018-04-17	4	5th	3 6 7 16 33
2018-04-03	9	4th	4 13

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: 33 is drawn with probability 5/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2016-04-19	1	5th	10 11 12 32 33
2016-04-15	6	3rd	20 29 33 37 38
2016-03-25	2	5th	1 7 12 21 33
2016-03-18	32	5th	14 17 26 32 33
2015-11-24	9	2nd	30 33 34 44 45
2015-10-23	55	4th	1 5 27 33 37
2015-04-14	4	5th	20 22 23 29 33
2015-03-27	5	3rd	8 23 33 35 40
2015-03-10	2	5th	24 26 27 31 33
2015-03-03	6	4th	1 27 30 33 38
2015-02-10	17	5th	10 20 27 31 33
2014-12-12	4	2nd	26 33 34 36 38
2014-11-28	6	3rd	21 28 33 40 43
2014-11-07	3	3rd	8 14 33 41 44
2014-10-28	15	5th	9 10 17 23 33
2014-09-05	16	4th	1 8 24 33 43
2014-07-11	25	4th	6 13 27 33 35
2014-04-11	1	3rd	17 23 33 41 42
2014-04-08	21	4th	1 2 10 33 45
2014-01-24	2	4th	10 15 20 33 38
2014-01-17	9	5th	10 16 23 26 33
2013-12-17	6	5th	2 7 11 26 33
2013-11-26	4	4th	5 16 19 33 34
2013-11-12	20	4th	2 15 22 33 35
2013-09-03	13	4th	17 28 32 33 36
2013-07-19	2	4th	6 12 28 33 42
2013-07-12	37	4th	7 15 30 33 43
2013-03-01	14	3rd	13 30 33 35 45
2013-01-11	8	5th	1 4 14 20 33
2012-12-11	1	5th	11 16 25 28 33
2012-12-07	2	3rd	4 17 33 42 45
2012-11-30	2	3rd	6 25 33 42 44
2012-11-23	1	2nd	5 33 34 37 42
2012-11-20	19	5th	3 17 26 28 33
2012-09-14	9	4th	15 18 26 33 41
2012-08-14	7	5th	5 21 26 28 33
2012-07-20	13	4th	5 20 24 33 41
2012-06-05	44	5th	9 10 26 32 33
2011-12-30	4	4th	11 15 20 33 37
2011-12-16	20	4th	14 26 28 33 45
2011-10-07	26	1st	33 36 38 40 44
2011-07-08	6	5th	5 22 30 32 33
2011-06-17	4	3rd	15 23 33 44 45
2011-06-03	1	4th	6 30 31 33 36
2011-05-31	8	4th	7 8 13 33 35
2011-05-03	7	4th	8 10 11 33 34
2011-04-05	12	4th	16 23 25 33 34
2011-02-22	17	4th	4 10 12 33 35
2010-12-24	9	4th	26 30 31 33 40
2010-11-23	18	4th	2 9 10 33 43
2010-09-21	2	2nd	31 33 36 40 42
2010-09-14	1	4th	3 23 29 33 40
2010-09-10	5	4th	1 17 19 33 38
2010-08-24	4	4th	6 23 27 33 44
2010-08-10	5	4th	9 19 31 33 45
2010-07-23	14	4th	18 23 24 33 37
2010-06-04	19	5th	1 16 20 27 33
2010-03-26	2	3rd	25 30 33 36 44
2010-03-19	9	3rd	7 11 33 44 45
2010-02-16	4	4th	22 23 30 33 44
2010-02-02	23	3rd	7 25 33 38 42
2009-11-10	—	5th	12 20 22 28 33