Number 38

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 550 draws, 5 from 1–38.

84times drawn · chance expected 72 +1.47σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

23longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 84 times in 550 draws against 72.4 expected, +1.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 18 times, counted separately.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 84 times in 550 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 38 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest84 · chance 84.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 13 1 6 27 3

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, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-22	4	5th	1 3 4 8 38
2026-10-18	16	5th	9 12 21 22 38
2026-10-02	2	5th	7 21 22 30 38
2026-09-30	23	5th	5 7 17

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: 38 is drawn with probability 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-26	5	5th	1 23 28 29 38
2026-04-21	14	5th	1 20 33 36 38
2026-04-07	7	5th	2 3 10 29 38
2026-03-31	5	5th	13 24 29 33 38
2026-03-26	1	5th	4 23 24 37 38
2026-03-25	5	5th	9 28 29 35 38
2026-03-20	1	5th	5 11 24 37 38
2026-03-19	3	5th	17 19 20 30 38
2026-03-16	8	5th	6 12 15 23 38
2026-03-08	1	5th	10 13 17 33 38
2026-03-07	4	5th	1 9 21 28 38
2026-03-03	2	5th	7 16 18 28 38
2026-03-01	2	5th	3 4 20 32 38
2026-02-27	5	5th	11 14 24 31 38
2026-02-22	18	5th	1 23 25 34 38
2026-02-04	10	5th	10 16 18 37 38
2026-01-25	5	5th	11 12 16 20 38
2026-01-20	10	5th	17 22 25 29 38
2026-01-10	9	5th	10 13 27 37 38
2026-01-01	11	5th	6 15 27 35 38
2025-12-21	5	5th	13 30 34 35 38
2025-12-16	17	5th	3 14 15 29 38
2025-11-29	2	5th	8 24 29 35 38
2025-11-27	3	5th	3 24 31 32 38
2025-11-24	6	5th	7 13 15 22 38
2025-11-18	6	5th	9 21 27 36 38
2025-11-12	13	5th	11 25 27 29 38
2025-10-30	3	5th	2 5 8 16 38
2025-10-27	5	5th	4 11 25 28 38
2025-10-22	12	5th	21 25 33 37 38
2025-10-10	10	5th	12 17 29 33 38
2025-09-30	2	5th	12 18 29 30 38
2025-09-28	8	5th	2 18 21 26 38
2025-09-20	16	5th	3 13 22 34 38
2025-09-04	1	5th	2 6 7 10 38
2025-09-03	1	5th	9 23 26 34 38
2025-09-02	3	5th	13 18 24 36 38
2025-08-30	10	5th	11 13 16 21 38
2025-08-20	1	5th	5 19 22 31 38
2025-08-19	7	5th	14 17 31 33 38
2025-08-12	1	5th	3 15 21 22 38
2025-08-11	8	5th	2 12 22 32 38
2025-08-03	2	5th	9 18 27 31 38
2025-08-01	2	5th	10 13 31 35 38
2025-07-30	1	5th	1 13 30 32 38
2025-07-29	11	5th	8 16 27 30 38
2025-07-18	13	5th	4 9 27 34 38
2025-07-05	21	5th	5 13 17 29 38
2025-06-14	2	5th	1 6 25 29 38
2025-06-12	6	5th	5 26 27 28 38
2025-06-06	4	5th	17 23 30 34 38
2025-06-02	6	5th	13 16 30 36 38
2025-05-27	2	5th	3 6 24 33 38
2025-05-25	3	5th	6 29 32 36 38
2025-05-22	5	5th	1 6 18 37 38
2025-05-17	6	5th	6 8 9 27 38
2025-05-11	4	5th	10 13 19 35 38
2025-05-07	5	5th	1 21 29 30 38
2025-05-02	9	5th	20 26 28 32 38
2025-04-23	—	5th	6 23 31 34 38