In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · Feb 2019 – Apr 2022 rules — 337 draws, 6 from 1–46 (an earlier era).
40times drawn · chance expected 44 −0.64σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number
8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7
32longest completed wait · 40% chance of one at least that long
32 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 40 times in 337 draws against 44.0 expected, −0.64σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
32
Number 32, draw by draw
Drawn 40 times in 337 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 32 · 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 32 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 45 numbers; chance expected about 0.5 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 32 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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.
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: 32 is drawn with probability 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.