Number 36

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 rules — 720 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

84times drawn · chance expected 88 −0.43σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

42longest completed wait · 33% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 84 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −0.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 84 times in 720 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 6 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 36 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 0.3
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.5
4th smallest34 · chance 30.1
5th smallest45 · chance 48.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 14 25 2 32 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 41. 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 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-11	8	5th	14 25 27 30 36
2023-10-03	16	3rd	15 18 36 40 41
2023-09-17	6	5th	11 16 17 19 36
2023-09-11	5	4th	5 22 27

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: 36 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-03-05	5	5th	1 18 27 33 36
2023-02-28	4	4th	23 25 33 36 38
2023-02-24	1	4th	2 3 26 36 39
2023-02-23	7	4th	1 19 34 36 40
2023-02-16	13	5th	2 3 13 22 36
2023-02-03	3	5th	2 17 25 33 36
2023-01-31	11	5th	2 3 13 25 36
2023-01-20	3	3rd	14 15 36 37 39
2023-01-17	6	5th	13 24 27 30 36
2023-01-11	13	5th	8 20 22 32 36
2021-12-29	20	4th	6 24 32 36 37
2021-12-09	3	5th	3 18 31 34 36
2021-12-06	2	4th	3 10 13 36 41
2021-12-04	1	5th	6 16 21 35 36
2021-12-03	1	5th	3 4 10 35 36
2021-12-02	9	5th	2 15 24 30 36
2021-11-23	6	5th	5 6 27 34 36
2021-11-17	2	5th	3 19 28 32 36
2021-11-15	10	4th	14 30 35 36 38
2021-11-05	1	4th	13 17 22 36 40
2021-11-04	21	5th	4 12 15 26 36
2021-10-14	9	5th	2 19 21 31 36
2021-10-05	1	5th	8 10 17 25 36
2021-10-04	24	4th	22 24 25 36 39
2021-09-10	2	4th	7 20 32 36 37
2021-09-08	6	4th	8 15 28 36 38
2021-09-02	6	4th	8 9 20 36 41
2021-08-27	5	5th	2 15 24 25 36
2021-08-22	6	5th	2 10 15 25 36
2021-08-16	9	4th	8 14 15 36 37
2021-08-07	26	5th	4 17 20 27 36
2021-07-12	13	5th	3 6 31 33 36
2021-06-29	10	5th	5 9 10 35 36
2021-06-19	9	5th	19 20 28 32 36
2021-06-10	7	5th	5 11 24 27 36
2021-06-03	9	5th	2 4 13 18 36
2021-05-25	4	5th	1 14 21 35 36
2021-05-21	18	3rd	13 29 36 37 40
2021-05-03	2	4th	1 5 31 36 41
2021-05-01	20	4th	18 27 31 36 37
2021-04-11	11	4th	3 12 28 36 41
2021-03-31	16	5th	12 17 21 32 36
2021-03-15	14	4th	9 11 25 36 41
2021-03-01	4	4th	3 11 12 36 40
2021-02-25	10	4th	10 12 20 36 37
2021-02-15	6	4th	1 30 33 36 37
2021-02-09	6	5th	2 12 14 35 36
2021-02-03	1	5th	1 14 29 30 36
2021-02-02	3	5th	1 5 32 34 36
2021-01-30	7	5th	2 4 14 29 36
2021-01-23	42	5th	7 14 20 25 36
2020-12-12	5	4th	5 6 12 36 41
2020-12-07	2	4th	11 23 28 36 37
2020-12-05	4	4th	16 18 27 36 38
2020-12-01	3	5th	18 22 27 33 36
2020-11-28	6	4th	3 31 32 36 41
2020-11-22	7	5th	4 15 29 30 36
2020-11-15	11	4th	3 12 35 36 37
2020-11-04	1	5th	16 22 32 34 36
2020-11-03	—	5th	3 4 25 35 36