Number 13

In Megabucks Plus under the 5/41 + 1/0 · Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 rules — 104 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.39σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

19longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 104 draws against 12.7 expected, +0.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 104 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 1 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 13 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest5 · chance 3.1
2nd smallest6 · chance 6.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 32 6 19 20 21

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 40 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-04-19	18	1st	13 19 24 32 41
2023-02-15	3	2nd	4 13 14 15 25
2023-02-04	1	3rd	2 6 13 20 21
2023-02-01	9	1st	13

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