Number 36

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 243 draws, 5 from 1–58.

16times drawn · chance expected 21 −1.13σ

37draws waiting · a wait this long: 4% for any number

13.0average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

42longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 243 draws against 20.9 expected, −1.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 37 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 243 draws · average wait 13.0 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 37 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 0.3
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.2
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.6
4th smallest6 · chance 5.8
5th smallest3 · chance 2.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 25 27 41 54 3

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers 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 — 34th most popular of 58. 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
2026-09-15	7	4th	5 6 14 36 38
2026-09-08	9	3rd	14 19 36 41 42
2026-08-30	8	3rd	9 27 36 54 56
2026-08-22	24	4th	7 17

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.