Number 38

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.41σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

21longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, −0.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 101 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 21 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest2 · chance 0.8
5th smallest5 · chance 4.6
6th smallest6 · chance 7.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 32 34 41 13 17

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers 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 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-17	4	6th	5 28 30 32 35 38
2026-10-03	2	4th	15 25 32 38 41 42
2026-09-26	5	4th	10 27 33 38 40 41
2026-09-09	5	5th

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.