Number 4

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

83times drawn · chance expected 72 +1.34σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

26longest completed wait · 91% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 550 draws against 72.4 expected, +1.34σ. 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 4, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 550 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 4 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 smallest52 · chance 58.3
2nd smallest28 · chance 22.6
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.1
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 9.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 1 3 22 24 32

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, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-22	3	3rd	1 3 4 8 38
2026-10-19	3	1st	4 11 19 30 31
2026-10-16	5	1st	4 18 25 29 32
2026-10-11	25	2nd	3 4 10

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

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