In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 2/10 · since Sep 2025 rules — 152 draws, 2 from 1–10.
75times drawn · chance expected 30 +9.04σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
2.0average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0
10longest completed wait · >99% chance of one at least that long
3 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 10
Drawn 75 times in 152 draws against 30.4 expected, +9.04σ. 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.
3
Number 3, draw by draw
Drawn 75 times in 152 draws · average wait 2.0 draws · longest completed wait 10 · drawn in the most recent draw
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 3 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 9 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 10. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 3 is drawn with probability 2/10 tonight whatever it did last week.