Number 38

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 111 draws, 6 from 1–49.

11times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.75σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

21longest completed wait · 53% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, −0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 111 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 2 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 38 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.7
4th smallest1 · chance 2.7
5th smallest7 · chance 4.7
6th smallest1 · chance 2.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 35 8 9 18 19

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-14	21	5th	9 14 24 30 38 46
2026-08-01	1	5th	17 21 25 28 38 47
2026-07-29	1	2nd	6 38 39 41 43 46
2026-07-25	9	5th

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 38 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.