Number 32

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

17times drawn · chance expected 13 +1.07σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

26longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

32 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, +1.07σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 32, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 133 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 1 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 32 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 0.2
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.0
3rd smallest7 · chance 5.7
4th smallest5 · chance 6.5
5th smallest2 · chance 2.5

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.

4 26 5 8 40 44

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 32 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 32 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2014-09-26	21	3rd	8 26 32 44 50
2014-05-02	2	3rd	9 31 32 33 34
2014-04-18	3	2nd	12 32 40 44 49
2014-03-28	17	2nd	10 32

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