Number 27

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · Feb 2019 – Apr 2022 rules — 337 draws, 6 from 1–46 (an earlier era).

55times drawn · chance expected 44 +1.79σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

27longest completed wait · 76% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 55 times in 337 draws against 44.0 expected, +1.79σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 55 times in 337 draws · average wait 6.0 draws · longest completed wait 27 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 27 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 smallest1 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest7 · chance 14.2
4th smallest26 · chance 20.0
5th smallest11 · chance 12.8
6th smallest6 · chance 3.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 18 2 9 20 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 45 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 46. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2022-04-22	5	3rd	14 21 27 29 34 43
2022-04-05	1	4th	5 19 26 27 42 44
2022-04-01	3	5th	3 13 17 22 27

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: 27 is drawn with probability 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.

2021-03-23	3	4th	4 14 24 27 35 43
2021-03-12	27	4th	2 10 14 27 36 44
2020-12-08	9	4th	11 17 21 27 29 30
2020-11-06	1	4th	2 23 25 27 31 39
2020-11-03	1	5th	15 16 17 20 27 43
2020-10-30	7	6th	7 10 16 20 26 27
2020-10-06	1	6th	3 9 18 20 25 27
2020-10-02	6	4th	10 21 22 27 42 43
2020-09-11	3	4th	8 11 25 27 28 39
2020-09-01	6	4th	1 5 16 27 34 46
2020-08-11	6	4th	11 19 21 27 38 42
2020-07-21	4	2nd	20 27 32 34 35 46
2020-07-07	8	4th	9 10 26 27 41 45
2020-06-09	8	5th	2 13 19 20 27 33
2020-05-12	1	5th	3 5 8 23 27 44
2020-05-08	12	1st	27 29 30 33 41 42
2020-03-27	11	4th	12 14 18 27 39 46
2020-02-18	1	4th	1 16 19 27 28 30
2020-02-14	6	4th	7 9 12 27 37 40
2020-01-24	2	4th	5 11 23 27 31 39
2020-01-17	15	4th	6 7 18 27 32 44
2019-11-26	27	6th	6 7 8 20 26 27
2019-08-23	6	3rd	3 18 27 33 40 45
2019-08-02	2	6th	2 9 13 16 18 27
2019-07-26	16	4th	12 18 23 27 29 39
2019-05-31	2	4th	15 22 23 27 30 40
2019-05-24	4	2nd	3 27 32 34 40 46
2019-05-10	8	4th	10 13 25 27 45 46
2019-04-12	4	5th	2 9 12 25 27 28
2019-03-29	3	5th	2 8 13 26 27 39
2019-03-19	—	6th	5 6 8 10 22 27