Watch as one chart shows the consistent randomness of Powerball's winning numbers

In the past few months when we’ve tried to make a little sense of random numbers in Powerball and Mega Millions, things have been pretty random.

The two stories we update after each lottery's drawings offer visual insights into which balls are more or less likely to roll out of their machines based on past drawings.

Of course, it's possible a ball might not roll out for dozens or even hundreds of games, but more often than not, each ball rolls out with some regularity. Sixty-five of the 70 Mega Millions white balls have won since June. In Powerball, only the No. 56 ball hasn’t rolled out since late May.

In Powerball, that contributed to making an oddly organized, bell-shaped curve on Nov. 11. An animation below shows how the winning numbers, to a degree, have maintained the shape.

More than a quarter of Powerball numbers at 15-win average on Nov. 11

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How we set the 15-win Powerball average

We decided that showing how often a number won in a confined timeframe might be more useful than starting from October 2015. That's when the Powerball administrators changed the game to make winning more difficult and, as a result, drive bigger jackpots.

So what is the magic of a 207-game range? It's an admittedly unscientific reasoning, but it offers a solid, midrange view:

◾ Five of the 69 white balls roll out of the hopper each game.

◾ We wanted a slightly larger sample of games, so we multiplied five and 69 by three – the number of games each week. The result: 207 games and a 15-win average.

What might be more interesting, though, is to see how this set of 69 numbers seemingly organized into this bell-shaped curve since July 29.

How the distribution of the Powerball numbers have changed

Perhaps, there's nothing to be gained from this little bit of trivia in a game with 1 in 292.2 million odds of winning the jackpot – unless you have millions of dollars to gamble. Still, a version of this chart and a few others linked below have, at times, highlighted a winning number or two that have helped players cut their odds just a bit.