Number 39

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

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.38σ

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

11.2average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

43longest completed wait · 12% chance of one at least that long

39 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, −0.38σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 39, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 133 draws · average wait 11.2 draws · longest completed wait 43 · 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 39 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.4
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.2
4th smallest4 · chance 5.3
5th smallest6 · chance 4.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 38 1 5 7 8

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 39 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 39 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2014-09-19	2	5th	13 18 20 38 39
2014-09-05	12	4th	26 31 33 39 40
2014-06-13	7	5th	1 8 15 18 39
2014-04-25	7	4th	4 7

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