Number 33

In Lotto under the 6/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015 rules — 601 draws, 6 from 1–45 (an earlier era).

76times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.50σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 32% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

48longest completed wait · 9% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 601 draws against 80.1 expected, −0.50σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 15 times, counted separately.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 601 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 48 · waiting 9 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 33 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 smallest1 · chance 1.1
3rd smallest6 · chance 7.6
4th smallest27 · chance 22.9
5th smallest28 · chance 30.2
6th smallest14 · chance 14.1

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.

24 3 7 11 15 20

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 33 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 45. 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 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2015-09-02	5	4th	7 20 22 33 35 42
2015-08-15	2	4th	3 4 22 33 37 45
2015-08-08	1	3rd	9 26 33 37 40 44
2015-08-05	1	4th

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: 33 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2013-09-28	12	4th	19 24 32 33 37 43
2013-08-17	3	4th	4 11 16 33 43 45
2013-08-07	6	4th	6 7 27 33 35 40
2013-07-17	7	5th	2 3 4 19 33 38
2013-06-22	7	4th	3 7 14 33 36 41
2013-05-29	8	5th	6 12 14 16 33 43
2013-05-01	11	5th	16 21 22 26 33 35
2013-03-23	1	6th	7 12 15 20 25 33
2013-03-20	5	4th	16 22 31 33 34 43
2013-03-02	9	5th	5 8 9 30 33 45
2013-01-30	4	6th	3 8 11 23 27 33
2013-01-16	1	4th	9 21 24 33 35 36
2013-01-12	9	6th	2 13 22 24 32 33
2012-12-12	21	6th	3 9 12 15 31 33
2012-09-29	2	6th	4 5 15 25 28 33
2012-09-22	8	5th	9 11 17 24 33 41
2012-08-25	2	4th	10 23 28 33 34 36
2012-08-18	6	4th	2 10 27 33 36 41
2012-07-28	10	4th	6 11 25 33 40 43
2012-06-23	4	4th	19 22 27 33 40 44
2012-06-09	3	4th	13 17 26 33 36 45
2012-05-30	7	5th	12 15 17 30 33 45
2012-05-05	2	5th	6 9 21 31 33 42
2012-04-28	5	4th	3 24 32 33 40 42
2012-04-11	14	4th	7 26 31 33 42 45
2012-02-22	3	6th	11 13 15 20 28 33
2012-02-11	9	6th	1 8 15 19 23 33
2012-01-11	2	5th	4 6 26 29 33 40
2012-01-04	10	5th	3 11 20 23 33 36
2011-11-30	2	5th	3 11 22 26 33 41
2011-11-23	5	5th	6 15 23 27 33 44
2011-11-05	12	6th	1 4 15 16 29 33
2011-09-24	22	5th	2 7 19 23 33 43
2011-07-09	11	5th	2 9 11 20 33 36
2011-06-01	9	4th	4 10 18 33 35 38
2011-04-30	15	5th	2 6 15 30 33 37
2011-03-09	18	5th	1 15 26 32 33 41
2011-01-05	6	3rd	12 21 33 38 41 44
2010-12-15	1	4th	18 20 32 33 35 44
2010-12-11	2	5th	1 7 24 31 33 38
2010-12-04	5	5th	2 3 9 25 33 38
2010-11-17	13	4th	4 15 16 33 42 45
2010-10-02	29	5th	1 3 24 32 33 45
2010-06-23	4	6th	11 12 18 21 32 33
2010-06-09	1	6th	4 7 17 20 30 33
2010-06-05	2	4th	7 12 23 33 34 37
2010-05-29	1	5th	3 9 19 31 33 34
2010-05-26	5	4th	16 18 23 33 36 40
2010-05-08	5	3rd	6 17 33 39 40 41
2010-04-21	2	4th	3 25 30 33 37 41
2010-04-14	8	4th	6 13 24 33 34 38
2010-03-17	—	6th	1 24 26 27 32 33