Number 31

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–45.

14times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.15σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

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

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws against 14.5 expected, −0.15σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 3 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 31 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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
3rd smallest0 · chance 2.0
4th smallest1 · chance 4.8
5th smallest7 · chance 4.9
6th smallest6 · chance 1.8

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.

1 11 26 12 2 3

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 31 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-04	1	5th	8 12 23 24 31 33
2026-09-27	21	5th	11 16 19 29 31 39
2026-05-03	1	6th	2 5 6 9 15 31

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: 31 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.