Number 98

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

52times drawn · chance expected 169 −9.13σ

18draws waiting · a wait this long: 60% for any number

106.4average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

391longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long

98 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 52 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −9.13σ. 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 98, draw by draw

Drawn 52 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 106.4 draws · longest completed wait 391 · waiting 18 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 98 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.1
3rd smallest52 · chance 50.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 1 4 5 2 8

Never drawn alongside 72 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 35 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 98 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 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-04	233	3rd	3 5 98
2025-12-14	334	3rd	8 19 98
2025-01-14	211	3rd	5 15 98
2024-06-17	156	3rd	5 18 98
2024-01-13	182	3rd	2 3 98
2023-07-15

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

2017-09-25	239	3rd	2 11 98
2017-01-29	8	3rd	8 31 98
2017-01-21	15	3rd	1 11 98
2017-01-06	42	3rd	8 21 98
2016-11-25	110	3rd	10 25 98
2016-07-22	31	3rd	4 16 98
2016-06-16	17	3rd	5 10 98
2016-05-27	1	3rd	3 4 98
2016-05-26	391	3rd	5 20 98
2015-02-25	17	3rd	1 27 98
2015-02-05	15	3rd	5 25 98
2015-01-19	66	3rd	4 8 98
2014-11-01	141	3rd	3 30 98
2014-05-21	44	3rd	2 26 98
2014-03-31	24	3rd	4 27 98
2014-03-03	58	3rd	5 16 98
2013-12-25	20	3rd	4 10 98
2013-12-02	21	3rd	1 5 98
2013-11-07	142	3rd	4 7 98
2013-05-25	61	3rd	8 9 98
2013-03-15	65	3rd	1 12 98
2012-12-29	22	3rd	1 7 98
2012-12-04	136	3rd	7 24 98
2012-06-28	77	3rd	8 20 98
2012-03-29	113	3rd	9 27 98
2011-11-18	30	3rd	5 23 98
2011-10-14	287	3rd	1 3 98
2010-11-11	—	3rd	12 16 98