Number 33

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 151 draws, 5 from 1–49.

19times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.97σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

28longest completed wait · 64% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 19 times in 151 draws against 15.4 expected, +0.97σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 19 times in 151 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 7 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 33 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 0.2
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.7
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.8
4th smallest7 · chance 7.7
5th smallest4 · chance 3.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 24 9 25 26 34

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 33 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 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-16	1	4th	12 25 32 33 34
2026-10-15	19	4th	4 20 24 33 45
2026-09-26	3	3rd	9 11 33 40 42
2026-09-23	7	3rd	5 24

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: 33 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.