Number 37

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

10times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.80σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

10.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

39longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 104 draws against 12.7 expected, −0.80σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 104 draws · average wait 10.2 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 7 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 0.4
4th smallest2 · chance 3.1
5th smallest8 · chance 6.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 22 26 29 32 8

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 40 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers 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 — 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 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-03-29	1	5th	21 25 26 35 37
2023-03-25	15	5th	20 22 26 30 37
2023-02-01	1	5th	13 19 20 24 37
2023-01-28	4	5th	2

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.