Lottery number frequency, odds and draw history
956,000 draws archived, 88 games, 21 US jurisdictions. Every number counted, every probability worked from the matrix, and every count printed beside the range chance alone produces.
Counts on each page are scoped to that game’s CURRENT rules, which is 896,035 of those draws. It is the only window in which every ball has had an equal chance to appear: Powerball has been seven different games since 1992, and an all-time count mixes in draws from a smaller drum where the higher balls could not have been drawn at all.
Start with the thing most of these pages exist to show
Ask which numbers come up most and you will get an answer, on this site and everywhere else. The answer is real and it is useless, and the reason is visible rather than assertable: alongside every count is the range a fair draw produces by chance, and on almost every game almost every ball sits inside it. A sorted table always has a top row. That is a property of sorting, not of the drum.
What genuinely differs between drawings is not the odds but the PAYOUT: a jackpot is split between whoever holds it, and about a quarter of tickets are chosen by hand and cluster hard on 1 to 31 because people play birthdays. A line above 31 wins no more often, but when it wins it is shared less. That is the only real edge in any of this and it is a modest one.