Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool, tied with 1 other number.
October 14, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball white ball 46 is tracked here on the current matrix: 5 white balls from 1 through 69 and a Powerball from 1 through 26, from October 7, 2015 through November 11, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 1,432 drawings it appeared 84 times. That is 19.8 appearances below the even-split count of 103.8. An even split gives every white ball the same share of those drawings, because five white balls are drawn from the field each time. The median count in this pool of 69 is 102.0. Powerball white ball 46 ranks 67th, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was October 14, 2026, which is 12 drawings ago. That gap ranks 26th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 90 drawings, after April 23, 2016 and before it returned on March 8, 2017.
The appearance before the latest one was July 27, 2026, 34 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 17.0 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2023 had the most appearances, 14. 2016 had the fewest, 2. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 1 time. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was October 14, 2026: white balls 3, 34, 37, 42, 46, and Powerball 20, multiplier 3×.
When Powerball white ball 46 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 4 (10 times), white ball 19 (10 times), and white ball 15 (9 times). A pair that leads this list is a pair that happened. The next drawing still takes five white balls from the full field.
The Powerball values in those same drawings were led by Powerball 13 (8 times), Powerball 22 (7 times), and Powerball 20 (6 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 45 (104 appearances) and white ball 47 (114 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,024 drawings and records 130 appearances of Powerball white ball 46. The earliest of them is July 24, 2010. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 12 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each Powerball white ball has a 5-in-69 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- October 14, 2026: white balls 3, 34, 37, 42, 46, and Powerball 20, multiplier 3×
- July 27, 2026: white balls 6, 26, 46, 58, 65, and Powerball 25, multiplier 2×
- July 4, 2026: white balls 17, 38, 46, 50, 69, and Powerball 20, multiplier 2×
- May 20, 2026: white balls 10, 28, 30, 46, 57, and Powerball 25, multiplier 3×
- May 9, 2026: white balls 15, 41, 46, 47, 56, and Powerball 22, multiplier 2×
- April 18, 2026: white balls 24, 25, 39, 46, 61, and Powerball 1, multiplier 5×
- January 28, 2026: white balls 21, 35, 40, 46, 68, and Powerball 11, multiplier 10×
- December 3, 2025: white balls 1, 14, 20, 46, 51, and Powerball 26, multiplier 3×
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