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3

Number 3

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–45.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.68σ
6draws waiting · a wait this long: 49% for any number
8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5
31longest completed wait · 14% chance of one at least that long
3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 14.4 expected, −0.68σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 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.

3

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 6 draws now

14 draws: 2024-10-26 to 2025-02-015 draws: 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-088 draws: 2025-03-08 to 2025-05-0331 draws: 2025-05-03 to 2025-12-061 draws: 2025-12-06 to 2025-12-135 draws: 2025-12-13 to 2026-01-177 draws: 2026-01-17 to 2026-03-071 draws: 2026-03-07 to 2026-03-1411 draws: 2026-03-14 to 2026-05-307 draws: 2026-05-30 to 2026-07-187 draws: 2026-07-18 to 2026-09-05Still waiting — at least 6 draws since 2026-09-052024-10-262025-02-012025-03-082025-05-032025-12-062025-12-132026-01-172026-03-072026-03-142026-05-302026-07-182026-09-052024-09-282026-10-17

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

1 draws: 2 times2 draws: 0 times3 draws: 0 times4 draws: 0 times5 draws: 2 times6 draws: 0 times7 draws: 3 times8 draws: 1 time9 draws: 0 times10 draws: 0 times11 draws: 1 time12 draws: 0 times13 draws: 0 times14 draws: 1 time15 draws: 0 times16 draws: 0 times17 draws: 0 times18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 0 times20 draws: 0 times21 draws: 0 times22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 times25 draws: 0 times26 draws: 0 times27 draws: 0 times28 draws: 0 times29 draws: 0 times30 draws: 0 times31 draws: 1 time32 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 3 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

  • 1st smallest9 · chance 9.4
  • 2nd smallest3 · chance 2.5
  • 3rd smallest0 · chance 0.1
  • 4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
  • 5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
  • 6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

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Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

  • Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
  • Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
  • Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-09-0571st3620252632
2026-07-1872nd2312232635
2026-05-30111st31528323437
2026-03-1411st
← number 2Every numbernumber 4 →
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: 3 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

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2026-03-0771st31421333742
2026-01-1751st31116243839
2025-12-1311st31825333536
2025-12-06312nd1321243241
2025-05-0382nd1322263435
2025-03-0851st3810253839
2025-02-01141st3635394145
2024-10-26—1st3524414243