Number 51

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

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 63% for any number

89.1average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

322longest completed wait · 0.4% chance of one at least that long

51 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 51, draw by draw

Drawn 63 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 89.1 draws · longest completed wait 322 · waiting 16 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 51 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 14.6
2nd smallest0 · chance 31.8
3rd smallest63 · chance 16.6

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.

4 11 12 1 8 10

Never drawn alongside 69 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 28 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 51 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 51 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-06	80	3rd	3 31 51
2026-05-18	18	3rd	8 21 51
2026-04-30	156	3rd	1 11 51
2025-11-25	83	3rd	7 12 51
2025-09-03	318	3rd	4 25 51
2024-10-20

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: 51 is drawn with probability 3/100 tonight whatever it did last week.

2019-09-29	144	3rd	5 18 51
2019-05-08	7	3rd	2 22 51
2019-05-01	1	3rd	4 17 51
2019-04-30	1	3rd	1 8 51
2019-04-29	98	3rd	12 13 51
2019-01-21	29	3rd	8 26 51
2018-12-23	17	3rd	11 26 51
2018-12-06	47	3rd	8 26 51
2018-10-20	110	3rd	7 12 51
2018-07-02	64	3rd	10 14 51
2018-04-29	253	3rd	9 25 51
2017-08-19	62	3rd	6 10 51
2017-06-18	141	3rd	4 30 51
2017-01-28	54	3rd	11 16 51
2016-12-05	18	3rd	3 5 51
2016-11-17	15	3rd	3 4 51
2016-11-01	126	3rd	9 11 51
2016-06-07	192	3rd	7 10 51
2015-10-27	123	3rd	4 27 51
2015-06-05	20	3rd	2 12 51
2015-05-13	160	3rd	11 28 51
2014-11-06	55	3rd	4 12 51
2014-09-03	53	3rd	1 8 51
2014-07-03	7	3rd	10 27 51
2014-06-25	89	3rd	9 18 51
2014-03-13	102	3rd	6 17 51
2013-11-14	28	3rd	7 30 51
2013-10-12	18	3rd	6 8 51
2013-09-21	58	3rd	10 15 51
2013-07-16	151	3rd	11 29 51
2013-01-21	47	3rd	11 13 51
2012-11-27	23	3rd	2 15 51
2012-10-31	176	3rd	1 11 51
2012-04-07	49	3rd	2 10 51
2012-02-10	2	3rd	1 30 51
2012-02-08	16	3rd	12 12 51
2012-01-20	297	3rd	3 14 51
2011-02-05	166	3rd	5 17 51
2010-07-27	—	3rd	4 15 51