Number 13

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 4 from 1–45.

10times drawn · chance expected 10 +0.14σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 57% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

22longest completed wait · 75% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws against 9.6 expected, +0.14σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 13 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 smallest1 · chance 3.7
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 1.6
4th smallest1 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 6 8 18 29 1

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 22 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st 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
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-29	2	3rd	6 7 13 41
2026-08-15	1	2nd	2 13 29 36
2026-08-08	1	2nd	6 13 18 34
2026-08-01	4	1st	13 22 26 44

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: 13 is drawn with probability 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.