Number 33

In Lotto under the 6/52 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 rules — 442 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).

50times drawn · chance expected 51 −0.15σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 38% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

26longest completed wait · 90% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 50 times in 442 draws against 51.0 expected, −0.15σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 50 times in 442 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 9 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 33 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 0.2
2nd smallest4 · chance 2.6
3rd smallest14 · chance 10.2
4th smallest16 · chance 18.1
5th smallest11 · chance 14.5
6th smallest4 · chance 4.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 4.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

52 51 18 37 4 40

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 numbers; chance expected about 0.4 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 33 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th most popular of 52. 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 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2012-10-08	4	5th	9 15 17 32 33 49
2012-09-29	13	4th	4 23 26 33 39 46
2012-08-29	15	3rd	7 16 33 46 51 52
2012-07-25

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: 33 is drawn with probability 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2011-06-20	9	5th	3 6 9 20 33 42
2011-05-30	5	5th	11 12 24 27 33 52
2011-05-18	4	4th	12 18 23 33 36 50
2011-05-09	10	3rd	20 28 33 40 44 46
2011-04-16	10	4th	2 17 32 33 40 49
2011-03-23	23	5th	10 22 23 29 33 47
2011-01-29	13	6th	3 8 12 16 25 33
2010-12-29	1	3rd	1 23 33 34 50 51
2010-12-27	4	4th	10 13 17 33 35 40
2010-12-18	3	3rd	29 31 33 36 37 49
2010-12-11	9	4th	6 11 25 33 51 52
2010-11-20	16	3rd	11 18 33 37 45 51
2010-10-13	1	4th	5 20 32 33 41 44
2010-10-11	8	4th	3 13 23 33 46 52
2010-09-22	5	5th	4 14 16 32 33 52
2010-09-11	7	4th	2 13 14 33 42 51
2010-08-25	6	3rd	19 22 33 37 46 51
2010-08-11	1	3rd	18 23 33 35 41 43
2010-08-09	6	4th	4 6 9 33 37 47
2010-07-26	10	2nd	3 33 35 39 41 51
2010-07-03	24	6th	7 9 17 18 21 33
2010-05-08	5	3rd	10 20 33 44 47 52
2010-04-26	3	2nd	1 33 38 39 44 52
2010-04-19	26	4th	4 18 30 33 35 38
2010-02-17	11	4th	4 16 24 33 37 48
2010-01-23	—	5th	4 12 21 26 33 38