Number 35

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

13times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.09σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 31% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

25longest completed wait · 63% chance of one at least that long

35 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, −0.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 35, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 133 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 12 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 35 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 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.6
4th smallest3 · chance 5.5
5th smallest6 · chance 2.8

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.

45 9 11 17 25 3

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 35 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 35 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2014-07-11	2	4th	3 10 16 35 45
2014-06-27	4	3rd	11 33 35 42 44
2014-05-30	9	5th	7 17 25 26 35
2014-03-28	1	3rd	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: 35 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.