In Montana Cash under the 5/37 · Apr 2010 – May 2014 rules — 428 draws, 5 from 1–37 (an earlier era).
63times drawn · chance expected 58 +0.73σ
5draws waiting · a wait this long: 56% for any number
6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4
24longest completed wait · 89% chance of one at least that long
36 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 63 times in 428 draws against 57.8 expected, +0.73σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
36
Number 36, draw by draw
Drawn 63 times in 428 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 5 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.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 36 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 — 32nd most popular of 37. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 5/37 tonight whatever it did last week.