Number 3

In Revancha under the 5/35 · Apr 2022 – Jun 2025 rules — 479 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

85times drawn · chance expected 68 +2.16σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 54% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

18longest completed wait · >99% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 85 times in 479 draws against 68.4 expected, +2.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 85 times in 479 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 5 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 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.

1st smallest69 · chance 65.9
2nd smallest15 · chance 18.2
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 29 34 35 12 17

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, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-05-30	15	2nd	1 3 28 34 35
2025-04-25	3	1st	3 4 15 27 34
2025-04-16	13	2nd	1 3 14 30 35
2025-03-17	2	1st	3 12

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

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