Number 13

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 1/10 · Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 524 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

78times drawn · chance expected 75 +0.39σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

24longest completed wait · 90% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, +0.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 24 · 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 13 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 smallest14 · chance 12.3
2nd smallest28 · chance 31.1
3rd smallest20 · chance 25.6
4th smallest14 · chance 8.1
5th smallest2 · chance 0.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 9 3 20 15 25

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st most popular of 35. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-22	1	1st	13 20 23 28 33
2025-09-19	1	2nd	11 13 21 24 25
2025-09-17	3	4th	3 6 10 13 25
2025-09-10	9	4th	2 3

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: 13 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-08-30	6	3rd	7 11 13 23 31
2024-08-16	8	4th	1 7 11 13 32
2024-07-29	8	2nd	12 13 22 23 26
2024-07-10	2	4th	1 2 3 13 35
2024-07-05	4	4th	5 11 12 13 16
2024-06-26	5	2nd	1 13 15 21 27
2024-06-14	3	3rd	3 11 13 31 34
2024-06-07	4	1st	13 14 20 29 34
2024-05-29	4	1st	13 15 19 22 27
2024-05-20	1	2nd	10 13 23 30 35
2024-05-17	24	2nd	10 13 16 21 27
2024-03-20	6	4th	4 9 10 13 14
2024-03-06	15	2nd	9 13 24 30 35
2024-01-31	10	4th	2 4 9 13 14
2024-01-08	4	3rd	1 6 13 14 30
2023-12-27	2	2nd	1 13 15 20 22
2023-12-20	1	2nd	6 13 19 28 29
2023-12-18	11	2nd	6 13 17 24 30
2023-11-22	2	2nd	8 13 15 19 35
2023-11-17	3	2nd	9 13 15 25 33
2023-11-10	3	3rd	3 6 13 32 35
2023-11-03	4	5th	1 4 6 9 13
2023-10-25	1	3rd	7 8 13 15 25
2023-10-23	3	1st	13 27 30 31 32
2023-10-16	20	2nd	8 13 14 24 25
2023-08-30	1	2nd	9 13 15 21 31
2023-08-28	1	4th	1 7 12 13 25
2023-08-25	3	3rd	5 9 13 21 31
2023-08-18	3	1st	13 16 21 24 27
2023-08-11	1	2nd	11 13 19 23 32
2023-08-09	8	4th	9 10 11 13 20
2023-07-21	7	2nd	10 13 29 34 35
2023-07-05	15	3rd	8 11 13 17 20
2023-05-31	9	2nd	3 13 29 30 33
2023-05-10	20	2nd	12 13 22 24 34
2023-03-22	2	2nd	3 13 23 25 32
2023-03-17	1	3rd	4 5 13 24 26
2023-03-15	22	1st	13 15 17 18 28
2023-01-23	8	3rd	7 12 13 17 25
2022-12-30	10	1st	13 27 28 29 31
2022-12-05	5	3rd	5 11 13 19 21
2022-11-23	8	4th	2 9 12 13 15
2022-11-04	1	1st	13 16 26 31 35
2022-11-02	2	1st	13 16 20 24 31
2022-10-28	7	2nd	1 13 15 18 27
2022-10-12	8	2nd	10 13 21 26 27
2022-09-23	10	3rd	3 9 13 19 20
2022-08-31	1	1st	13 22 25 32 33
2022-08-29	5	3rd	8 9 13 16 28
2022-08-17	15	4th	3 4 5 13 28
2022-07-13	6	3rd	7 10 13 19 32
2022-06-27	11	3rd	4 5 13 31 33
2022-06-01	16	4th	1 2 4 13 23
2022-04-25	—	2nd	7 13 21 29 34