Number 13

In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/8 · Mar 2012 – Oct 2014 rules — 133 draws, 5 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.20σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 90% for any number

9.6average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

19longest completed wait · 88% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, +0.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 133 draws · average wait 9.6 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 2 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 smallest3 · chance 4.4
2nd smallest6 · chance 6.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.9
4th smallest3 · chance 0.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 4 6 9 3 7

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 50. 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
2014-09-19	11	1st	13 18 20 38 39
2014-07-04	16	4th	3 10 11 13 42
2014-03-14	19	4th	6 7 9 13 30
2013-11-01	14	3rd	7 10

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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.