Number 38

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

76times drawn · chance expected 88 −1.34σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

50longest completed wait · 12% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −1.34σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 720 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 50 · waiting 2 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 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 smallest3 · chance 1.7
4th smallest21 · chance 19.4
5th smallest52 · chance 54.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 30 40 27 6 8

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, 38 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-15	11	5th	1 3 19 22 38
2023-10-04	3	5th	13 22 26 33 38
2023-10-01	1	5th	2 25 27 37 38
2023-09-30	42	3rd	10 30 38

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-04-06	15	5th	6 11 13 21 38
2023-03-22	22	5th	6 28 30 34 38
2023-02-28	2	5th	23 25 33 36 38
2023-02-26	8	5th	1 5 13 25 38
2023-02-18	22	5th	6 8 27 35 38
2023-01-27	3	5th	1 5 13 21 38
2023-01-24	8	5th	10 15 21 30 38
2023-01-16	3	5th	7 8 10 17 38
2023-01-13	33	4th	17 25 27 38 40
2021-12-11	6	4th	9 23 32 38 40
2021-12-05	9	5th	23 26 30 32 38
2021-11-26	8	5th	6 13 19 26 38
2021-11-18	3	5th	4 16 21 34 38
2021-11-15	5	5th	14 30 35 36 38
2021-11-10	4	5th	22 27 29 31 38
2021-11-06	7	4th	16 21 24 38 40
2021-10-30	8	4th	4 15 35 38 39
2021-10-22	7	5th	3 6 10 31 38
2021-10-15	37	5th	14 18 25 33 38
2021-09-08	2	5th	8 15 28 36 38
2021-09-06	1	5th	8 9 30 33 38
2021-09-05	16	4th	6 13 37 38 41
2021-08-20	5	4th	17 26 34 38 41
2021-08-15	2	5th	9 16 30 37 38
2021-08-13	4	5th	2 8 18 26 38
2021-08-09	5	5th	11 18 31 37 38
2021-08-04	10	5th	1 3 8 21 38
2021-07-25	11	5th	1 8 12 34 38
2021-07-14	1	5th	20 23 25 30 38
2021-07-13	11	5th	6 15 16 20 38
2021-07-02	2	4th	7 14 37 38 41
2021-06-30	12	4th	16 23 30 38 40
2021-06-18	7	5th	6 8 15 18 38
2021-06-11	10	5th	5 19 35 37 38
2021-06-01	14	4th	21 26 32 38 41
2021-05-18	3	4th	20 31 33 38 40
2021-05-15	5	4th	4 20 32 38 40
2021-05-10	2	5th	15 17 25 34 38
2021-05-08	17	4th	30 34 35 38 41
2021-04-21	50	4th	10 30 35 38 41
2021-03-02	4	5th	18 24 28 35 38
2021-02-26	4	5th	3 14 25 34 38
2021-02-22	9	5th	7 21 27 33 38
2021-02-13	6	5th	2 20 28 31 38
2021-02-07	20	5th	2 7 9 21 38
2021-01-18	10	5th	1 4 18 27 38
2021-01-08	34	5th	10 16 24 29 38
2020-12-05	5	5th	16 18 27 36 38
2020-11-30	5	4th	15 25 27 38 41
2020-11-25	6	5th	10 17 18 34 38
2020-11-19	8	5th	11 21 22 37 38
2020-11-11	—	4th	6 23 30 38 39