Which groups of three Powerball numbers have never come up?
Powerball has been drawn as 5 numbers from 69 plus a Powerball from 26 since October 2015. Everything on this page counts only the 1,425 draws since that change.
Of the 52,394 groups of three the Powerball pool allows, 39,938 have never been drawn in 1,425 draws, where chance predicts 39,916.
A group waits because there are a great many slots to fill, not because its numbers are unlucky. The one thing that does mark the waiting list out is how long each group has been available to be drawn, and that is what the rows below are arranged around. Your own numbers go in the box further down.
What was measured ten groups per draw
A group of three is three of the pool's numbers in no order. Draw 1425 was 1826495054, which holds ten groups of three, so across 1,425 draws the record has drawn 14,250 groups counting repeats, and 12,456 of them were different, against the 52,394 the pool allows.
One named group sits inside one draw with probability 10 in 52,394, about 1.9 chances in ten thousand at the pool of 69, so a group goes unseen through a draw almost every time and the predictions below are those near misses multiplied together over the draws that could have held it. This game has drawn from one pool of 69 numbers throughout the record read here, so every group has had the same 1,425 chances. Each prediction is still summed over a group's own run of draws, which stays right if the pool ever changes.
The record 52,394 groups, 8 rows
The groups the pool allows, cut into rows of roughly equal size by what they add up to
| Group adds up to | Chance waiting | Waiting |
|---|---|---|
| From 6 to 64 6,455 groups | 4,91876.2% | 5,00377.5% |
| From 65 to 80 6,397 groups | 4,87476.2% | 4,94277.3% |
| From 81 to 93 6,782 groups | 5,16776.2% | 5,18776.5% |
| From 94 to 104 6,274 groups | 4,78076.2% | 4,76976.0% |
| From 105 to 116 6,852 groups | 5,22076.2% | 5,16775.4% |
| From 117 to 129 6,782 groups | 5,16776.2% | 5,13875.8% |
| From 130 to 145 6,397 groups | 4,87476.2% | 4,85375.9% |
| From 146 to 204 6,455 groups | 4,91876.2% | 4,87975.6% |
The rows are cut from the pool alone, before any draw is read, so that each holds about the same number of groups, between 6,274 and 6,852 of them. That makes the shares in the last two columns comparable from row to row. Every group here has had the same chances, so chance predicts the same 76.2 in a hundred waiting in every row, and the record runs from 75.4 to 77.5 in a hundred. The widest gap between a row and its own prediction is 1.3 in a hundred, in the row from 6 to 64. Some row has to be the widest of eight, so that is where a list of this length starts rather than a finding about those sums.
Nothing in the tables here is printed in red, and that is deliberate rather than an omission. The groups are not independent of one another: one draw lifts ten groups at once and they share numbers. Expectation is additive all the same, which is why every prediction above is exact, but the spread of these counts would need the covariance between groups that share numbers, and that is not honestly available. A range would have to be invented, so none is given. The figures on this page that do carry ranges are read a different way, draw by draw, further down.
Recent trend last 100 draws, then blocks of 20
Red marks a figure outside the range ordinary variation produces
The same record read the other way round, one draw at a time. Going into a draw some groups are already on record, and the rest of that draw's ten groups are first timers. That count has an exact prediction and an exact range, because a draw's prediction is read off the draws before it and never off itself. The first 100 draws brought 993 first timers against a predicted 991, and the last 100 brought 771 against 770. Chance predicts the fall between the two: the fuller the record, the more often a draw repeats a group it has already had.
First timers per draw, one point per block of 20 draws
result for the blockrange ordinary variation allowsoutside that range
Oldest block on the left, newest on the right. The band is what chance predicts for those same draws, worked out from each draw's own pool and from the groups on record going into it. It falls towards the right, because a fuller record leaves a draw fewer groups to bring in for the first time. No point sits outside the band. Across ten blocks, chance alone puts 0.46 of them outside, so a point outside would not be explained by the number of blocks read.
Applied to this draw draw 1425 · 2026-10-26
Draw 1425 was 1826495054 from a pool of 69, which holds ten groups of three. Of those, ten had never been drawn before, where chance predicted 7.6, which is 1.6 standard errors above it.
The first five of them, in order, each off the waiting list for good.
Try your own numbers which of their groups are still waiting
Three numbers from 69 are enough, and up to five are read, a whole draw's worth. Every group of three they make comes back with its record, the ones still waiting first.
Nothing typed yet, so these are the lowest five numbers the pool has.
Those numbers make ten groups of three. Of those, nine have never been drawn, where chance predicts 7.6.
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