Photograph by Dylan Nolte.
What we actually went looking for
"Numbers that have never been drawn" is one of the most searched lottery questions there is. It is easy to see why. It feels like the closest thing to inside information a random game could offer. So we pulled every real draw on file, 90 per game, and checked every number in every pool.[1]
What we actually found
Every number, in all four games, has been drawn at least once. Zero exceptions.[2] That is not a disappointing result. It is what honest randomness looks like at this scale. Across 90 draws per game there is no room left for a number to hide. It is the law of large numbers doing its work, covered properly on our Statistics Explained page. Repeat a random process enough times and the counts settle near what the maths predicts. Nothing gets quietly exempted.
So instead of a list that doesn't exist, here's the honest version: which numbers have run hottest, and which have run coldest, across the real data we actually have.
Most drawn, by game
| Game | Top 5 most-drawn numbers (times drawn) |
|---|
| Oz Lotto | 17 (24x), 39 (21x), 2 (20x), 30 (19x), 4 (17x) |
| Powerball | 15 (25x), 30 (25x), 1 (23x), 14 (23x), 9 (22x) |
| Saturday Lotto | 10 (18x), 13 (17x), 3 (16x), 6 (16x), 8 (16x) |
| Weekday Windfall | 26 (19x), 13 (18x), 11 (17x), 17 (17x), 34 (17x) |
Least drawn, by game
| Game | Bottom 5 least-drawn numbers (times drawn) |
|---|
| Oz Lotto | 5 (7x), 15 (7x), 3 (9x), 11 (9x), 42 (9x) |
| Powerball | 8 (11x), 10 (11x), 31 (11x), 2 (13x), 35 (13x) |
| Saturday Lotto | 20 (5x), 24 (6x), 26 (7x), 39 (7x), 4 (8x) |
| Weekday Windfall | 3 (7x), 7 (7x), 10 (7x), 4 (8x), 5 (8x) |
The genuinely interesting twist
None of this predicts next week. Every draw is independent, so a number's history has no bearing on its next appearance. Our hot and cold numbers review goes through why. There is a subtler point though. The "never been drawn" claims you find elsewhere usually rest on decades of history, not a recent window like ours. And the longer the history, the closer every count creeps toward what chance predicts. So a number that looks cold over 30 years is almost certainly an ordinary wobble. Not a hidden pattern.
The straight version
This piece did not end up where I expected. I went looking for a neat list of forgotten numbers and found a demonstration of the law of large numbers instead. That is the better outcome. A page confidently listing "numbers that never come up" would feed the exact myth this site exists to push back on.
There are no numbers hiding from the barrel, at least not in any window big enough to check. The hottest and coldest above are real. They are also descriptive, not predictive: a record of what already happened, not a hint about what is next. Enjoy them as trivia.
The exact counts above are a snapshot of the 90-draw window on file as of the 12 August 2026 draw and will shift every time a new draw is added and an old one ages out; they are not a live figure. Past frequency does not predict future results. This is entertainment and data reporting, not advice. Explore the live frequency charts for the current picture, updated with every new draw.
References
- All figures above are computed directly from this site's own stored draw history for each game, the same dataset powering the frequency charts on every game page. ↩
- The Lott, official results archive, the source every draw on file is checked against: thelott.com/oz-lotto/results ↩