Number 36

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 645 draws, 6 from 1–42.

86times drawn · chance expected 92 −0.69σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

38longest completed wait · 25% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 645 draws against 92.1 expected, −0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 86 times in 645 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 2 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 36 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 0.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.4
4th smallest13 · chance 11.3
5th smallest33 · chance 36.1
6th smallest40 · chance 37.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 10 3 11 32 39

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 42. 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 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-14	2	4th	3 24 26 36 40 42
2026-10-07	6	4th	2 8 19 36 37 41
2026-09-16	6	5th	10 11 27 28 36 40
2026-08-26	2	6th	4

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: 36 is drawn with probability 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-08-31	13	5th	12 13 17 29 36 38
2024-07-17	4	5th	19 24 27 32 36 41
2024-07-03	2	4th	3 18 35 36 38 39
2024-06-26	2	4th	1 8 11 36 37 40
2024-06-19	11	4th	5 7 27 36 39 42
2024-05-11	13	6th	4 8 10 11 12 36
2024-03-27	2	6th	3 7 16 31 34 36
2024-03-20	12	6th	15 16 26 27 34 36
2024-02-07	2	5th	2 5 21 35 36 42
2024-01-31	4	5th	6 25 30 33 36 39
2024-01-17	8	5th	14 18 23 34 36 38
2023-12-20	1	4th	3 9 22 36 37 41
2023-12-16	5	6th	4 8 10 15 16 36
2023-11-29	2	6th	4 7 17 21 27 36
2023-11-22	6	6th	10 12 14 15 20 36
2023-11-01	1	4th	25 31 35 36 38 42
2023-10-28	2	6th	2 4 11 19 25 36
2023-10-21	5	6th	11 15 18 22 23 36
2023-10-04	14	5th	2 10 17 32 36 38
2023-08-16	6	4th	12 18 23 36 37 42
2023-07-26	16	6th	10 15 20 27 28 36
2023-05-31	10	6th	10 12 15 20 33 36
2023-04-26	5	5th	9 12 13 17 36 41
2023-04-08	24	5th	2 9 16 21 36 41
2023-01-14	5	4th	2 17 32 36 39 42
2022-12-28	6	6th	2 4 10 26 32 36
2022-12-07	1	5th	1 3 5 9 36 39
2022-12-03	4	5th	11 12 14 18 36 39
2022-11-19	1	5th	3 10 15 20 36 42
2022-11-16	10	6th	14 21 25 30 32 36
2022-10-12	11	6th	2 15 24 28 35 36
2022-09-03	6	6th	10 14 20 32 35 36
2022-08-13	1	4th	7 16 23 36 40 41
2022-08-10	1	5th	2 11 15 25 36 39
2022-08-06	3	5th	6 15 16 31 36 40
2022-07-27	11	6th	3 7 8 22 34 36
2022-06-18	10	5th	3 4 11 19 36 39
2022-05-14	3	5th	8 10 16 21 36 39
2022-05-04	1	6th	2 15 19 26 32 36
2022-04-30	1	5th	12 20 21 24 36 37
2022-04-27	3	4th	8 19 31 36 37 41
2022-04-16	6	5th	9 16 24 25 36 37
2022-03-26	10	6th	13 15 18 23 25 36
2022-02-19	23	5th	13 23 24 34 36 39
2021-11-27	12	5th	5 15 24 25 36 42
2021-10-16	2	5th	3 14 28 31 36 37
2021-10-09	2	5th	6 20 21 29 36 39
2021-10-02	10	6th	5 27 28 29 32 36
2021-08-28	8	5th	9 14 15 28 36 39
2021-07-31	9	6th	1 23 24 29 33 36
2021-06-30	3	6th	1 2 14 15 22 36
2021-06-19	6	6th	3 6 20 30 34 36
2021-05-29	3	6th	4 10 20 30 35 36
2021-05-19	2	6th	13 20 26 30 34 36
2021-05-12	1	6th	12 27 28 29 32 36
2021-05-08	9	6th	4 24 26 28 30 36
2021-04-07	3	5th	8 18 33 34 36 41
2021-03-27	8	6th	6 9 28 29 31 36
2021-02-27	20	6th	12 16 17 20 27 36
2020-12-19	4	6th	1 13 18 25 32 36
2020-12-05	17	6th	4 23 25 32 35 36
2020-10-07	—	5th	5 6 8 10 36 39