Number 37

In Cash 5 under the 5/39 · Nov 2012 – Apr 2014 rules — 527 draws, 5 from 1–39 (an earlier era).

65times drawn · chance expected 68 −0.33σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 58% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8

39longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 65 times in 527 draws against 67.6 expected, −0.33σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 65 times in 527 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 5 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.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.6
4th smallest10 · chance 12.6
5th smallest55 · chance 51.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 9 11 34 23 28

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 38 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 — 32nd most popular of 39. 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 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2014-04-10	17	4th	3 22 30 37 39
2014-03-24	1	5th	11 18 33 34 37
2014-03-23	9	5th	4 9 13 16 37
2014-03-14	2	5th	3 5 9

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: 37 is drawn with probability 5/39 tonight whatever it did last week.

2013-09-30	4	5th	13 14 20 23 37
2013-09-26	4	5th	11 19 28 36 37
2013-09-22	11	5th	1 12 14 27 37
2013-09-11	10	5th	20 23 29 31 37
2013-09-01	6	5th	5 11 17 34 37
2013-08-26	6	5th	5 12 13 24 37
2013-08-20	3	4th	18 34 35 37 38
2013-08-17	2	4th	4 16 26 37 39
2013-08-15	10	5th	13 16 22 28 37
2013-08-05	16	5th	7 26 27 30 37
2013-07-20	3	5th	10 16 28 31 37
2013-07-17	8	4th	12 13 28 37 39
2013-07-09	9	5th	2 19 24 36 37
2013-06-30	6	5th	1 3 8 15 37
2013-06-24	8	5th	8 11 29 31 37
2013-06-16	1	5th	3 12 17 28 37
2013-06-15	2	5th	18 24 25 32 37
2013-06-13	17	5th	1 15 34 36 37
2013-05-27	3	5th	19 20 24 34 37
2013-05-24	10	4th	3 6 28 37 39
2013-05-14	4	5th	1 2 6 23 37
2013-05-10	6	5th	3 11 22 29 37
2013-05-04	16	5th	8 10 29 31 37
2013-04-18	17	5th	7 8 16 31 37
2013-04-01	1	5th	2 17 26 31 37
2013-03-31	7	5th	13 23 33 34 37
2013-03-24	1	5th	19 27 34 36 37
2013-03-23	12	5th	6 19 28 31 37
2013-03-11	8	4th	8 14 25 37 38
2013-03-03	4	5th	9 11 23 27 37
2013-02-27	29	4th	1 5 15 37 38
2013-01-29	5	5th	9 15 18 35 37
2013-01-24	8	5th	8 9 13 22 37
2013-01-16	16	5th	10 19 34 35 37
2012-12-31	1	5th	9 15 17 18 37
2012-12-30	2	5th	11 12 13 31 37
2012-12-28	4	5th	2 15 26 32 37
2012-12-24	10	5th	20 23 27 33 37
2012-12-14	14	5th	1 6 16 21 37
2012-11-30	22	5th	6 11 14 22 37
2012-11-08	—	5th	15 22 23 36 37