Number 73

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

97times drawn · chance expected 95 +0.21σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number

14.7average wait between appearances · chance says 15.0

68longest completed wait · 61% chance of one at least that long

73 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 97 times in 1,425 draws against 95.0 expected, +0.21σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 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 73, draw by draw

Drawn 97 times in 1,425 draws · average wait 14.7 draws · longest completed wait 68 · waiting 7 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 73 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 smallest4 · chance 4.1
4th smallest23 · chance 19.0
5th smallest36 · chance 40.9
6th smallest34 · chance 32.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 72 81 4 19 51

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 89 numbers; chance expected about 0.4 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 73 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 38th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 73 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2009-06-13	13	4th	8 19 25 73 76 84
2009-05-14	1	5th	1 22 41 69 73 89
2009-05-12	32	6th	4 9 22 23 47 73

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

2006-11-30	43	4th	1 31 51 73 77 88
2006-08-22	17	6th	3 8 16 64 72 73
2006-07-13	2	5th	15 46 47 67 73 90
2006-07-08	8	4th	4 49 54 73 79 83
2006-06-20	4	6th	22 26 51 63 64 73
2006-06-10	2	4th	9 10 63 73 79 90
2006-06-06	34	6th	29 31 41 44 64 73
2006-03-18	22	5th	41 43 52 59 73 82
2006-01-26	7	4th	9 47 59 73 79 88
2006-01-10	15	4th	54 58 72 73 82 86
2005-12-06	42	5th	18 38 43 57 73 88
2005-08-30	8	4th	10 29 53 73 78 83
2005-08-11	10	4th	3 49 68 73 76 80
2005-07-19	3	6th	2 15 39 57 62 73
2005-07-12	13	6th	5 24 28 41 51 73
2005-06-08	16	6th	6 8 28 29 32 73
2005-04-13	1	4th	1 52 70 73 83 89
2005-04-09	4	5th	29 30 61 65 73 81
2005-03-26	7	6th	42 55 59 61 70 73
2005-03-02	23	6th	15 31 62 68 72 73
2004-12-11	14	5th	8 41 60 70 73 85
2004-10-23	2	5th	12 40 51 68 73 77
2004-10-16	35	5th	12 14 27 35 73 88
2004-06-16	6	4th	20 55 59 73 87 90
2004-05-26	5	3rd	26 65 73 76 81 90
2004-05-08	41	6th	3 34 62 63 72 73
2003-12-17	2	5th	1 3 42 48 73 83
2003-12-10	10	4th	6 37 62 73 79 90
2003-11-05	1	5th	13 14 24 29 73 79
2003-11-03	5	4th	9 25 37 73 80 81
2003-10-15	3	6th	11 26 30 34 43 73
2003-10-04	5	4th	22 62 68 73 75 87
2003-09-17	12	6th	25 33 64 67 68 73
2003-08-06	12	6th	8 21 24 42 72 73
2003-06-25	48	5th	1 9 40 59 73 74
2003-01-08	5	5th	5 26 49 50 73 90
2002-12-27	16	5th	33 41 49 50 73 87
2002-11-13	5	5th	5 44 45 53 73 89
2002-10-26	31	3rd	27 70 73 84 88 90
2002-07-10	2	4th	19 37 50 73 75 85
2002-07-03	27	6th	14 21 34 37 66 73
2002-03-30	13	4th	30 56 57 73 82 84
2002-02-13	42	5th	14 39 53 55 73 87
2001-09-22	4	6th	22 26 27 28 72 73
2001-09-08	7	6th	12 25 49 53 67 73
2001-08-16	12	5th	7 58 61 62 73 74
2001-07-04	14	5th	13 29 40 61 73 81
2001-05-16	17	6th	13 15 18 49 65 73
2001-03-17	45	5th	8 19 46 49 73 85
2000-10-11	5	5th	11 54 64 70 73 77
2000-09-23	68	4th	12 51 56 73 85 88
2000-01-29	1	5th	55 65 68 70 73 80
2000-01-26	20	5th	2 57 62 63 73 87
1999-11-17	2	3rd	6 51 73 78 80 81
1999-11-10	5	5th	21 45 55 61 73 80
1999-10-23	11	4th	24 46 57 73 79 81
1999-09-15	9	6th	17 20 27 29 72 73
1999-08-14	4	3rd	45 64 73 80 81 85
1999-07-31	20	4th	5 34 44 73 77 83
1999-05-22	2	5th	3 28 38 43 73 75
1999-05-15	5	5th	7 33 54 72 73 90
1999-04-28	3	5th	1 51 53 55 73 86
1999-04-17	12	5th	4 6 25 32 73 83
1999-03-06	36	6th	27 41 44 50 68 73
1998-10-31	1	5th	1 21 30 61 73 84
1998-10-28	21	4th	37 60 64 73 80 84
1998-08-17	23	6th	4 47 53 55 71 73
1998-05-27	5	6th	36 48 56 65 71 73
1998-05-09	7	5th	5 19 43 44 73 77
1998-04-15	6	5th	4 5 46 47 73 82
1998-03-25	9	6th	5 6 17 55 62 73
1998-02-21	13	5th	4 19 47 60 73 84
1998-01-07	—	6th	20 23 24 29 66 73