Star 7

In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/10 · Oct 2014 – Mar 2022 rules — 389 draws, 2 from 1–10 (an earlier era).

77times drawn · chance expected 78 −0.10σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 51% for any number

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

28longest completed wait · 17% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 389 draws against 77.8 expected, −0.10σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 389 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 4 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 7 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 smallest31 · chance 25.7
2nd smallest46 · chance 51.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 8 9 3 10 5

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 9 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st most popular of 10. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
The number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2022-02-18	3	2nd	4 7
2022-01-28	12	1st	7 9
2021-11-05	2	2nd	2 7
2021-10-22	5	2nd	3 7
2021-09-17	6	2nd	3 7
2021-08-06	7	2nd	1 7
2021-06-18

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: 7 is drawn with probability 2/10 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-01-24	9	1st	7 9
2019-11-22	7	2nd	3 7
2019-10-04	7	1st	7 8
2019-08-16	4	2nd	3 7
2019-07-19	1	1st	7 9
2019-07-12	3	1st	7 9
2019-06-21	4	2nd	1 7
2019-05-24	3	2nd	3 7
2019-05-03	6	2nd	1 7
2019-03-22	1	1st	7 9
2019-03-15	1	2nd	2 7
2019-03-08	3	2nd	1 7
2019-02-15	7	1st	7 9
2018-12-28	10	1st	7 10
2018-10-19	2	1st	7 8
2018-10-05	5	2nd	5 7
2018-08-31	3	2nd	2 7
2018-08-10	1	2nd	6 7
2018-08-03	2	1st	7 8
2018-07-20	4	1st	7 9
2018-06-22	3	2nd	6 7
2018-06-01	7	2nd	4 7
2018-04-13	2	1st	7 10
2018-03-30	3	2nd	5 7
2018-03-09	5	2nd	4 7
2018-02-02	4	1st	7 8
2018-01-05	5	1st	7 10
2017-12-01	1	2nd	2 7
2017-11-24	3	1st	7 8
2017-11-03	5	2nd	6 7
2017-09-29	2	1st	7 10
2017-09-15	2	2nd	3 7
2017-09-01	11	2nd	1 7
2017-06-16	11	2nd	1 7
2017-03-31	2	2nd	1 7
2017-03-17	1	1st	7 8
2017-03-10	6	1st	7 8
2017-01-27	8	1st	7 9
2016-12-02	28	2nd	3 7
2016-05-20	5	2nd	4 7
2016-04-15	1	2nd	6 7
2016-04-08	3	2nd	1 7
2016-03-18	3	2nd	4 7
2016-02-26	23	1st	7 10
2015-09-18	1	2nd	1 7
2015-09-11	1	2nd	5 7
2015-09-04	4	2nd	3 7
2015-08-07	20	2nd	4 7
2015-03-20	4	2nd	5 7
2015-02-20	8	2nd	2 7
2014-12-26	2	2nd	5 7
2014-12-12	8	1st	7 9
2014-10-17	—	1st	7 8