In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2024 – May 2026 rules — 589 draws, 5 from 1–49 (an earlier era).
54times drawn · chance expected 60 −0.83σ
17draws waiting · a wait this long: 18% for any number
10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
47longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long
36 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 54 times in 589 draws against 60.1 expected, −0.83σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 8 times, counted separately.
36
Number 36, draw by draw
Drawn 54 times in 589 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 47 · waiting 17 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 36 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 0.5 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 36 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.
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: 36 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.