Number 37

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

15times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.49σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

20longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, +0.49σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 133 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 5 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 37 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 0.7
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.5
4th smallest7 · chance 6.6
5th smallest6 · chance 4.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

38 1 6 8 9 12

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 37 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 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2014-08-29	12	5th	1 8 9 12 37
2014-06-06	2	4th	6 9 19 37 38
2014-05-23	20	4th	6 21 33 37 47
2014-01-03	2	5th	1 16

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