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.
September 12, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball 3 is tracked here on the current matrix: the current Powerball field of 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 59 times. That is 3.9 appearances above the even-split count of 55.1. An even split gives every special ball the same share of those drawings, because one special ball is drawn each time. The median count in this pool of 26 is 54.0. Powerball 3 ranks 10th, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was September 12, 2026, which is 26 drawings ago. That gap ranks 9th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 67 drawings, after January 20, 2018 and before it returned on September 15, 2018.
The appearance before the latest one was September 7, 2026, 2 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 23.5 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2016, 2019, and 2023 each had the most appearances, 7. 2017, 2018, and 2020 each had the fewest, 3. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 8 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 0 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was September 12, 2026: white balls 14, 16, 23, 58, 69, and Powerball 3, multiplier 2×.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Powerball 3 were white ball 32 (9 times), white ball 47 (9 times), and white ball 15 (8 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Powerball 2 (56 appearances) and Powerball 4 (66 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 72 appearances of Powerball 3. The earliest of them is July 3, 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 26 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. The Powerball has a 1-in-26 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
- September 12, 2026: white balls 14, 16, 23, 58, 69, and Powerball 3, multiplier 2×
- September 7, 2026: white balls 15, 19, 28, 39, 56, and Powerball 3, multiplier 3×
- July 18, 2026: white balls 9, 14, 44, 50, 56, and Powerball 3, multiplier 4×
- July 13, 2026: white balls 5, 25, 36, 40, 48, and Powerball 3, multiplier 2×
- June 29, 2026: white balls 10, 14, 41, 53, 59, and Powerball 3, multiplier 2×
- June 6, 2026: white balls 16, 32, 55, 59, 64, and Powerball 3, multiplier 3×
- April 27, 2026: white balls 18, 31, 33, 36, 62, and Powerball 3, multiplier 3×
- April 8, 2026: white balls 3, 16, 17, 42, 52, and Powerball 3, multiplier 2×
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