Number 36

In MyDaY under the 3/99 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2026 rules — 5,628 draws, 3 from 0–99 (an earlier era).

63times drawn · chance expected 169 −8.27σ

218draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.1% for any number

86.8average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

473longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long

36 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 63 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −8.27σ. It passes even the threshold tightened for testing every number at once. Read the draw-by-draw history below before reading anything into it — and it still says nothing about the next draw.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 63 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 86.8 draws · longest completed wait 473 · waiting 218 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 25.4
2nd smallest0 · chance 29.5
3rd smallest63 · chance 8.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 2 5 3 4 9

Never drawn alongside 70 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 28 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 — 39th most popular of 100. 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
2026-01-16	8	3rd	2 5 36
2026-01-08	251	3rd	8 11 36
2025-05-02	61	3rd	11 24 36
2025-03-02	71	3rd	6 24 36
2024-12-21	24	3rd	3 9 36
2024-11-27

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 3/100 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-10-28	42	3rd	12 12 36
2020-09-16	112	3rd	10 30 36
2020-05-27	25	3rd	6 14 36
2020-05-02	21	3rd	6 28 36
2020-04-11	95	3rd	2 12 36
2020-01-07	48	3rd	2 4 36
2019-11-20	37	3rd	11 20 36
2019-10-14	195	3rd	9 10 36
2019-04-02	104	3rd	11 26 36
2018-12-19	15	3rd	2 12 36
2018-12-04	36	3rd	9 23 36
2018-10-29	33	3rd	12 20 36
2018-09-26	81	3rd	3 12 36
2018-07-07	108	3rd	7 24 36
2018-03-21	50	3rd	7 24 36
2018-01-30	19	3rd	5 11 36
2018-01-11	2	3rd	6 30 36
2018-01-09	177	3rd	6 21 36
2017-07-16	40	3rd	8 12 36
2017-06-06	50	3rd	2 13 36
2017-04-17	50	3rd	4 5 36
2017-02-26	5	3rd	1 3 36
2017-02-21	98	3rd	3 10 36
2016-11-15	274	3rd	11 19 36
2016-01-01	24	3rd	4 29 36
2015-12-04	377	3rd	10 12 36
2014-09-19	73	3rd	10 17 36
2014-06-26	60	3rd	10 27 36
2014-04-17	27	3rd	9 11 36
2014-03-17	41	3rd	5 7 36
2014-01-28	2	3rd	8 9 36
2014-01-25	310	3rd	3 31 36
2013-01-29	473	3rd	12 30 36
2011-07-25	9	3rd	5 5 36
2011-07-14	99	3rd	9 14 36
2011-03-19	67	3rd	2 23 36
2010-12-31	100	3rd	4 29 36
2010-09-06	99	3rd	7 19 36
2010-05-13	—	3rd	7 9 36