Number 72

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

61times drawn · chance expected 169 −8.43σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 97% for any number

93.6average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

245longest completed wait · 3% chance of one at least that long

72 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 61 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −8.43σ. 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 72, draw by draw

Drawn 61 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 93.6 draws · longest completed wait 245 · waiting 2 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 72 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 4.4
2nd smallest0 · chance 24.4
3rd smallest61 · chance 32.1

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 11 2 6 7 1

Never drawn alongside 71 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 29 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 72 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 72 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-20	43	3rd	1 6 72
2026-07-08	34	3rd	3 28 72
2026-06-04	206	3rd	4 7 72
2025-11-10	16	3rd	11 20 72
2025-10-25	126	3rd	7 13 72
2025-06-21

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

2019-12-10	108	3rd	6 27 72
2019-08-24	89	3rd	4 6 72
2019-05-27	68	3rd	2 9 72
2019-03-20	12	3rd	9 30 72
2019-03-08	4	3rd	3 25 72
2019-03-04	16	3rd	3 19 72
2019-02-16	17	3rd	11 16 72
2019-01-30	112	3rd	4 16 72
2018-10-10	209	3rd	1 2 72
2018-03-15	91	3rd	6 14 72
2017-12-14	23	3rd	12 15 72
2017-11-21	29	3rd	1 24 72
2017-10-23	79	3rd	3 11 72
2017-08-05	92	3rd	8 20 72
2017-05-05	58	3rd	4 5 72
2017-03-08	7	3rd	5 25 72
2017-03-01	28	3rd	3 26 72
2017-02-01	110	3rd	8 18 72
2016-10-10	196	3rd	2 8 72
2016-02-24	53	3rd	5 16 72
2015-12-24	137	3rd	10 20 72
2015-07-17	132	3rd	1 6 72
2015-02-13	135	3rd	3 31 72
2014-09-08	32	3rd	7 24 72
2014-08-01	59	3rd	5 10 72
2014-05-24	81	3rd	1 30 72
2014-02-19	245	3rd	11 26 72
2013-05-09	168	3rd	2 11 72
2012-10-25	3	3rd	6 25 72
2012-10-22	131	3rd	2 13 72
2012-05-22	120	3rd	9 27 72
2012-01-02	224	3rd	2 2 72
2011-04-13	91	3rd	3 13 72
2010-12-28	72	3rd	4 16 72
2010-10-05	94	3rd	8 17 72
2010-06-17	47	3rd	7 9 72
2010-04-23	—	3rd	3 15 72