Number 38

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

59times drawn · chance expected 169 −8.58σ

63draws waiting · a wait this long: 15% for any number

92.6average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

371longest completed wait · 0.1% chance of one at least that long

38 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 59 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −8.58σ. 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 38, draw by draw

Drawn 59 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 92.6 draws · longest completed wait 371 · waiting 63 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 38 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 22.3
2nd smallest0 · chance 28.2
3rd smallest59 · chance 8.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 6 11 4 9 10

Never drawn alongside 71 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 30 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 — 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-06-20	111	3rd	6 20 38
2026-03-01	117	3rd	11 28 38
2025-11-04	50	3rd	5 26 38
2025-09-15	77	3rd	2 22 38
2025-06-30	112	3rd	3 20 38
2025-03-10

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 3/100 tonight whatever it did last week.

2021-01-23	67	3rd	6 26 38
2020-11-17	209	3rd	4 27 38
2020-04-22	18	3rd	10 25 38
2020-04-04	39	3rd	3 19 38
2020-02-25	284	3rd	9 10 38
2019-05-17	180	3rd	8 9 38
2018-11-18	27	3rd	8 9 38
2018-10-22	137	3rd	5 10 38
2018-06-07	62	3rd	4 9 38
2018-04-06	256	3rd	1 5 38
2017-07-24	86	3rd	3 29 38
2017-04-29	108	3rd	12 13 38
2017-01-11	139	3rd	12 25 38
2016-08-12	104	3rd	3 31 38
2016-04-13	27	3rd	3 4 38
2016-03-12	10	3rd	12 21 38
2016-03-01	1	3rd	1 20 38
2016-02-29	125	3rd	11 28 38
2015-10-06	39	3rd	10 20 38
2015-08-21	1	3rd	2 8 38
2015-08-20	80	3rd	6 20 38
2015-05-19	52	3rd	10 28 38
2015-03-19	56	3rd	11 28 38
2015-01-13	49	3rd	7 30 38
2014-11-15	219	3rd	10 21 38
2014-03-05	142	3rd	1 8 38
2013-09-20	96	3rd	6 22 38
2013-05-31	347	3rd	1 12 38
2012-04-20	52	3rd	8 12 38
2012-02-20	186	3rd	9 18 38
2011-07-16	115	3rd	11 28 38
2011-03-03	19	3rd	3 9 38
2011-02-09	55	3rd	4 21 38
2010-12-07	11	3rd	6 25 38
2010-11-24	—	3rd	7 17 38