Number 50

In SuperEnalotto under the 6/90 + 1/90 · Dec 1997 – Jul 2009 rules — 1,425 draws, 6 from 1–90 (an earlier era).

83times drawn · chance expected 95 −1.27σ

19draws waiting · a wait this long: 29% for any number

16.9average wait between appearances · chance says 15.0

77longest completed wait · 35% chance of one at least that long

50 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 1,425 draws against 95.0 expected, −1.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 19 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 12 times, counted separately.

Number 50, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 1,425 draws · average wait 16.9 draws · longest completed wait 77 · waiting 19 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.

1st smallest5 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest10 · chance 9.0
3rd smallest21 · chance 23.2
4th smallest32 · chance 28.7
5th smallest11 · chance 16.9
6th smallest4 · chance 3.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 4.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

80 14 88 3 39 57

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 0.8 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 90. 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 50 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2009-05-16	26	2nd	39 50 55 57 78 82
2009-03-17	10	4th	3 38 44 50 53 70
2009-02-21	3	5th	6 39 40 41 50 54

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: 50 is drawn with probability 6/90 tonight whatever it did last week.

2006-10-19	22	4th	34 36 44 50 71 80
2006-08-29	43	3rd	46 49 50 57 68 69
2006-05-20	3	4th	5 32 39 50 59 77
2006-05-13	42	4th	11 31 38 50 59 62
2006-02-04	77	4th	13 22 43 50 70 76
2005-08-09	16	5th	3 8 13 28 50 61
2005-07-02	35	4th	1 19 23 50 74 77
2005-03-09	7	3rd	26 31 50 71 85 87
2005-02-12	48	4th	13 18 24 50 58 66
2004-08-28	28	3rd	18 35 50 57 67 72
2004-05-22	10	5th	14 33 35 46 50 66
2004-04-17	7	3rd	3 14 50 59 82 84
2004-03-24	5	2nd	24 50 58 69 87 88
2004-03-06	24	5th	8 19 25 49 50 54
2003-12-13	4	3rd	20 48 50 58 65 78
2003-11-29	23	2nd	38 50 63 65 84 88
2003-09-10	1	2nd	39 50 51 64 72 81
2003-09-06	15	4th	16 17 49 50 74 81
2003-07-16	3	6th	15 18 29 37 47 50
2003-07-05	48	1st	50 62 68 70 74 80
2003-01-18	3	1st	50 62 70 75 82 90
2003-01-08	5	4th	5 26 49 50 73 90
2002-12-27	30	4th	33 41 49 50 73 87
2002-09-25	22	2nd	23 50 54 56 78 83
2002-07-10	3	3rd	19 37 50 73 75 85
2002-06-29	8	3rd	1 4 50 66 69 77
2002-06-01	22	2nd	38 50 58 80 85 90
2002-03-16	20	4th	5 30 34 50 82 84
2002-01-05	11	1st	50 52 54 76 77 86
2001-12-01	6	3rd	32 48 50 55 58 86
2001-11-10	10	4th	1 34 42 50 70 72
2001-10-06	26	4th	3 11 43 50 85 88
2001-07-07	28	2nd	10 50 53 78 82 86
2001-03-31	22	5th	12 14 17 32 50 58
2001-01-13	15	2nd	44 50 57 81 83 90
2000-11-22	4	4th	14 25 39 50 72 89
2000-11-08	1	3rd	22 42 50 53 78 83
2000-11-04	35	4th	19 21 28 50 53 62
2000-07-05	6	4th	12 34 35 50 63 88
2000-06-14	5	3rd	15 25 50 64 80 89
2000-05-27	38	4th	3 25 39 50 53 67
2000-01-15	10	4th	11 21 22 50 59 63
1999-12-11	23	3rd	6 27 50 57 77 80
1999-09-22	41	4th	1 11 40 50 53 80
1999-05-03	2	3rd	8 49 50 65 66 69
1999-04-24	14	5th	20 22 33 44 50 74
1999-03-06	22	4th	27 41 44 50 68 73
1998-12-19	6	6th	3 6 13 28 49 50
1998-11-28	3	4th	12 15 40 50 66 88
1998-11-18	8	5th	12 18 43 47 50 83
1998-10-21	1	3rd	14 39 50 56 72 89
1998-10-17	17	3rd	10 13 50 59 64 78
1998-08-19	5	4th	6 15 16 50 62 82
1998-08-01	17	5th	5 14 37 38 50 72
1998-06-03	4	2nd	48 50 80 81 84 87
1998-05-20	6	6th	5 13 22 25 43 50
1998-04-29	9	5th	15 23 27 29 50 69
1998-03-28	11	3rd	16 40 50 58 62 63
1998-02-18	—	6th	10 12 29 41 45 50