Number 38

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Apr 2014 – Jun 2017 rules — 1,156 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

119times drawn · chance expected 141 −1.98σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

49longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 119 times in 1,156 draws against 141.0 expected, −1.98σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 119 times in 1,156 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 49 · 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 38 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 smallest3 · chance 2.6
4th smallest35 · chance 30.4
5th smallest81 · chance 86.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

25 3 18 37 14 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 41. 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2017-06-14	3	5th	3 4 30 36 38
2017-06-11	4	5th	5 7 13 26 38
2017-06-07	18	5th	19 21 23 35 38
2017-05-20	7	4th	3 31 36

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: 38 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2016-09-29	12	5th	2 12 18 19 38
2016-09-17	1	4th	4 29 35 38 39
2016-09-16	12	5th	5 20 22 26 38
2016-09-04	6	5th	9 18 25 29 38
2016-08-29	15	5th	20 27 28 37 38
2016-08-14	2	4th	6 9 25 38 39
2016-08-12	5	4th	19 20 24 38 41
2016-08-07	18	4th	11 12 23 38 39
2016-07-20	9	5th	4 10 18 35 38
2016-07-11	13	3rd	16 35 38 39 41
2016-06-28	3	4th	6 7 26 38 40
2016-06-25	4	5th	3 13 29 37 38
2016-06-21	4	5th	1 3 22 27 38
2016-06-17	35	5th	12 15 30 37 38
2016-05-13	2	4th	8 16 26 38 41
2016-05-11	34	5th	2 25 32 37 38
2016-04-07	10	5th	13 20 28 29 38
2016-03-28	10	5th	8 25 27 37 38
2016-03-18	4	5th	18 22 31 37 38
2016-03-14	8	5th	2 4 15 23 38
2016-03-06	1	5th	8 14 20 32 38
2016-03-05	15	4th	18 28 36 38 39
2016-02-19	1	4th	15 27 34 38 39
2016-02-18	21	5th	2 10 13 33 38
2016-01-28	19	5th	6 10 12 35 38
2016-01-09	4	5th	1 5 14 17 38
2016-01-05	2	5th	1 9 27 33 38
2016-01-03	5	5th	14 21 23 28 38
2015-12-29	2	5th	11 24 32 36 38
2015-12-27	3	3rd	17 23 38 40 41
2015-12-24	11	5th	8 13 22 31 38
2015-12-13	3	5th	10 15 22 33 38
2015-12-10	26	5th	2 13 16 27 38
2015-11-14	13	5th	2 25 35 36 38
2015-11-01	25	4th	30 36 37 38 40
2015-10-07	5	4th	4 27 30 38 41
2015-10-02	2	5th	12 26 31 34 38
2015-09-30	6	5th	9 21 28 34 38
2015-09-24	26	5th	7 13 18 29 38
2015-08-29	1	5th	2 16 22 29 38
2015-08-28	10	5th	5 10 15 23 38
2015-08-18	22	5th	1 4 10 18 38
2015-07-27	1	4th	12 19 37 38 40
2015-07-26	15	5th	4 14 23 33 38
2015-07-11	4	5th	8 29 30 37 38
2015-07-07	13	5th	10 15 16 19 38
2015-06-24	5	5th	7 23 30 36 38
2015-06-19	13	5th	3 11 27 29 38
2015-06-06	49	5th	2 3 13 14 38
2015-04-17	15	4th	31 33 34 38 41
2015-04-02	1	5th	14 15 18 19 38
2015-04-01	10	5th	17 21 23 30 38
2015-03-22	1	4th	17 31 36 38 39
2015-03-21	1	4th	4 19 23 38 39
2015-03-20	3	4th	8 26 30 38 40
2015-03-17	7	5th	1 3 20 24 38
2015-03-10	2	5th	11 14 22 33 38
2015-03-08	15	5th	5 24 26 28 38
2015-02-21	7	5th	5 23 26 30 38
2015-02-14	5	5th	7 24 30 36 38
2015-02-09	9	5th	8 15 30 34 38
2015-01-31	3	4th	5 6 25 38 41
2015-01-28	8	5th	3 11 14 35 38
2015-01-20	5	4th	7 22 30 38 41
2015-01-15	1	5th	3 13 32 37 38
2015-01-14	7	4th	3 19 25 38 39
2015-01-07	4	4th	14 25 27 38 41
2015-01-03	26	5th	3 16 18 36 38
2014-12-08	8	5th	5 24 25 26 38
2014-11-30	22	5th	8 20 25 36 38
2014-11-08	11	5th	9 18 34 36 38
2014-10-28	12	5th	5 25 27 29 38
2014-10-16	30	4th	5 6 32 38 40
2014-09-16	8	5th	12 20 22 34 38
2014-09-08	10	4th	25 32 37 38 40
2014-08-29	7	5th	12 31 33 37 38
2014-08-22	1	4th	6 16 24 38 40
2014-08-21	2	5th	8 13 15 17 38
2014-08-19	11	5th	14 16 25 28 38
2014-08-08	9	5th	1 3 32 33 38
2014-07-30	4	4th	12 20 34 38 39
2014-07-26	15	5th	15 16 24 34 38
2014-07-11	4	5th	15 16 24 37 38
2014-07-07	1	5th	14 19 34 37 38
2014-07-06	4	5th	1 14 15 35 38
2014-07-02	5	5th	2 20 30 31 38
2014-06-27	4	5th	1 5 32 34 38
2014-06-23	2	5th	8 20 23 25 38
2014-06-21	7	4th	8 27 34 38 41
2014-06-14	9	4th	2 7 35 38 41
2014-06-05	22	5th	1 20 24 27 38
2014-05-14	5	4th	18 26 35 38 40
2014-05-09	7	5th	10 14 27 29 38
2014-05-02	6	5th	3 5 23 27 38
2014-04-26	—	4th	5 21 24 38 41