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
1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number
17.2average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0
64longest completed wait · 0.8% chance of one at least that long
50 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 7 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, −1.82σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
50
Number 50, draw by draw
Drawn 7 times in 133 draws · average wait 17.2 draws · longest completed wait 64 · 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 50 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 26 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 28 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 50 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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.
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: 50 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.