In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 562 draws, 5 from 1–38.
65times drawn · chance expected 74 −1.12σ
7draws waiting · a wait this long: 43% for any number
8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6
33longest completed wait · 51% chance of one at least that long
19 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 65 times in 562 draws against 73.9 expected, −1.12σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 16 times, counted separately.
19
Number 19, draw by draw
Drawn 65 times in 562 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 7 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 19 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 37 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 19 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 38. 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: 19 is drawn with probability 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.