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.
November 11, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball white ball 51 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 93 times. That is 10.8 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 51 ranks 61st, tied with 1 other number.
It is in the latest drawing of this set, November 11, 2026, so the current gap is zero. The longest miss lasted 57 drawings, after May 27, 2026 and before it returned on October 10, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was October 12, 2026, 13 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 15.2 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2022 had the most appearances, 13. 2016 and 2020 each had the fewest, 5. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 3 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was November 11, 2026: white balls 8, 42, 45, 51, 57, and Powerball 17, multiplier 3×.
When Powerball white ball 51 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 61 (14 times), white ball 28 (11 times), and white ball 69 (10 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 (6 times), Powerball 15 (6 times), and Powerball 18 (6 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 50 (105 appearances) and white ball 52 (110 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 143 appearances of Powerball white ball 51. The earliest of them is February 13, 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 0 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
- November 11, 2026: white balls 8, 42, 45, 51, 57, and Powerball 17, multiplier 3×
- October 12, 2026: white balls 22, 28, 38, 51, 69, and Powerball 9, multiplier 3×
- October 10, 2026: white balls 1, 4, 19, 33, 51, and Powerball 15, multiplier 2×
- May 27, 2026: white balls 5, 14, 21, 31, 51, and Powerball 13, multiplier 4×
- May 6, 2026: white balls 18, 27, 51, 65, 68, and Powerball 5, multiplier 3×
- April 29, 2026: white balls 3, 19, 35, 51, 67, and Powerball 15, multiplier 2×
- February 7, 2026: white balls 25, 36, 42, 51, 58, and Powerball 6, multiplier 2×
- January 26, 2026: white balls 21, 31, 51, 60, 63, and Powerball 18, multiplier 2×
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Powerball white ball 50
- Powerball white ball 52
- Powerball white ball 61
- Powerball white ball 28