In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · Feb 2019 – Apr 2022 rules — 337 draws, 6 from 1–46 (an earlier era).
41times drawn · chance expected 44 −0.48σ
11draws waiting · a wait this long: 25% for any number
7.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7
25longest completed wait · 76% chance of one at least that long
37 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 41 times in 337 draws against 44.0 expected, −0.48σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
37
Number 37, draw by draw
Drawn 41 times in 337 draws · average wait 7.8 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 11 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 37 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 0.5 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 37 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: 37 is drawn with probability 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.