The Most Common Powerball Numbers Don't Improve Your Odds

We'll be honest: No matter what any site tells you, your chances of winning the lottery are close to zero. The best experience you should expect to have with this form of gambling is temporary excitement. Deutschlandreform / Shutterstock

The latest technology has often improved daily life, making many problems faster and easier to solve. For example, you may have built your own Batcave-like command center with multiple monitors, each equipped with a customized browser to view each day's weather broadcast, news and work emails.

But what if you could harness the power of computing and immediately upgrade your bank account by predicting the winning numbers of the lottery — surely it wouldn't be that hard to do when you know the most common Powerball numbers?

Sadly, this is only a pipe dream. Powerball drawings are random; there is no guaranteed method for gaming the system and riding off into the sunset with millions of dollars. However, if you want to use statistics in your get-rich-quick scheme, we've listed the most common (and uncommon) numbers drawn in the past.

Contents

10 Most Common Numbers for Powerball Drawings
10 Least Common Powerball Numbers
Powerball vs. Mega Millions: Which Has Better Odds?
3 Biggest Jackpot Winners

10 Most Common Numbers for Powerball Drawings

These are a few of the most commonly drawn main numbers that have appeared on past winning tickets published since 2015. Although the data may illustrate some semblance of a pattern, it is essential to remember that playing these numbers will not ensure an advantage in the future.

61 (106 times)
21 (104 times)
27 (100 times)
32 (100 times)
69 (100 times)
33 (100 times)
39 (98 times)
63 (97 times)
64 (97 times)
23 (94 times)

10 Least Common Powerball Numbers

Although some readers may think the following numbers would land near the bottom of the lucky number spectrum, these uncommon Powerball numbers offer the same chance of material riches and a lavish payday as the list above.

13 (61 times)
49 (63 times)
29 (70 times)
34 (70 times)
46 (70 times)
26 (71 times)
48 (72 times)
51 (72 times)
8 (74 times)
25 (74 times)

Powerball vs. Mega Millions: Which Has Better Odds?

Many hopeful players have supported the various lottery outlets with hard-earned cash, betting that they are the lucky bum who will strike gold. But is it really more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the jackpot? Sadly, you're more likely to be struck by lightning over 1,600 times than win big.

Although the Powerball jackpot has slightly better odds than Mega Millions, your odds are roughly the same at 300 million to 1. That means you're twice as likely to be killed by a meteorite, 10 times more likely to become the president and 100 times more likely to be killed by a shark.

3 Biggest Jackpot Winners

These winners walked away with some of the biggest windfalls to date.

1. $2.04 Billion

California Powerball winner Edwin Castro purchased this monumental ticket at a humble gas station in Altadena, California, on Nov. 7, 2022.

2. $1.77 Billion

This winning ticket was sold at a liquor store in Frazier Park, California, in October 2023. Theodorus Struyck claimed the jackpot, which would be split among a group of lucky friends.

3. $1.59 Billion

This Jan. 13, 2016 jackpot was split three ways between winners located in Chino Hills, California, Munford, Tennessee, and Melbourne Beach, Florida.