Number 53

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

160draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.8% for any number

93.9average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

669longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long

53 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 53, draw by draw

Drawn 59 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 93.9 draws · longest completed wait 669 · waiting 160 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 53 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 12.6
2nd smallest0 · chance 29.7
3rd smallest59 · chance 16.8

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.

1 7 10 2 8 11

Never drawn alongside 72 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 30 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 53 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 53 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-15	106	3rd	8 13 53
2025-11-29	78	3rd	10 10 53
2025-09-12	48	3rd	2 28 53
2025-07-26	15	3rd	5 29 53
2025-07-11	46	3rd	4 16 53
2025-05-26

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

2020-01-05	171	3rd	11 29 53
2019-07-18	3	3rd	2 19 53
2019-07-15	359	3rd	6 27 53
2018-07-21	6	3rd	7 10 53
2018-07-15	25	3rd	5 11 53
2018-06-20	17	3rd	1 7 53
2018-06-03	1	3rd	4 7 53
2018-06-02	88	3rd	1 2 53
2018-03-06	22	3rd	4 7 53
2018-02-12	412	3rd	1 8 53
2016-12-27	65	3rd	8 27 53
2016-10-20	99	3rd	10 12 53
2016-06-27	160	3rd	8 26 53
2015-12-23	42	3rd	4 9 53
2015-11-04	8	3rd	1 5 53
2015-10-26	149	3rd	10 21 53
2015-05-05	182	3rd	11 12 53
2014-10-03	74	3rd	6 22 53
2014-07-09	119	3rd	5 24 53
2014-02-20	5	3rd	11 11 53
2014-02-14	16	3rd	1 1 53
2014-01-27	88	3rd	7 31 53
2013-10-16	347	3rd	4 7 53
2012-09-06	46	3rd	11 27 53
2012-07-14	71	3rd	3 25 53
2012-04-21	3	3rd	7 25 53
2012-04-18	4	3rd	1 17 53
2012-04-13	28	3rd	1 7 53
2012-03-12	99	3rd	8 29 53
2011-11-17	117	3rd	1 10 53
2011-07-02	146	3rd	2 7 53
2011-01-12	75	3rd	5 21 53
2010-10-16	69	3rd	6 10 53
2010-07-28	69	3rd	2 4 53
2010-05-08	—	3rd	6 6 53