Number 27

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

7times drawn · chance expected 13 −1.82σ

48draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.7% for any number

13.5average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

21longest completed wait · 54% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, −1.82σ. Each draw is independent: after 48 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 133 draws · average wait 13.5 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 48 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 27 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 0.3
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.5
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.7
4th smallest3 · chance 2.0
5th smallest1 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 7 13 22 37 1

Never drawn alongside 27 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 28 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2013-11-01	16	5th	7 10 13 26 27
2013-07-12	15	2nd	7 27 33 47 48
2013-03-29	7	3rd	1 22 27 37 50
2013-02-08	9	4th	12 14

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: 27 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.