Number 37

In Lotto under the 6/49 + 1/49 · Jan 2010 – Aug 2017 rules — 789 draws, 6 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

84times drawn · chance expected 97 −1.37σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

64longest completed wait · 2% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 84 times in 789 draws against 96.6 expected, −1.37σ. 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 17 times, counted separately.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 84 times in 789 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 64 · 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 37 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 smallest1 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 6.8
4th smallest21 · chance 23.1
5th smallest41 · chance 34.7
6th smallest19 · chance 18.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 6 8 11 23 28

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 48 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 37 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 49. 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 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2017-07-05	3	5th	16 29 30 32 37 44
2017-06-24	15	5th	15 18 26 31 37 42
2017-05-03	23	6th	9 11 16 24 30 37
2017-02-11	28	6th

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: 37 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.

2015-06-27	5	5th	6 18 28 32 37 42
2015-06-10	8	4th	3 5 23 37 40 48
2015-05-13	14	6th	12 13 17 27 35 37
2015-03-25	25	4th	3 5 17 37 47 49
2014-12-27	1	5th	15 20 24 27 37 43
2014-12-24	44	4th	16 19 27 37 38 44
2014-07-23	1	4th	2 30 35 37 43 44
2014-07-19	10	5th	1 11 28 36 37 43
2014-06-14	2	4th	12 25 28 37 40 48
2014-06-07	3	5th	7 8 24 30 37 48
2014-05-28	13	6th	6 8 16 26 28 37
2014-04-12	3	5th	14 18 32 35 37 45
2014-04-02	2	5th	9 11 14 33 37 48
2014-03-26	1	5th	3 23 30 36 37 44
2014-03-22	6	4th	16 32 35 37 42 47
2014-03-01	3	4th	8 13 21 37 43 47
2014-02-19	4	5th	1 2 23 28 37 41
2014-02-05	5	5th	2 18 24 25 37 38
2014-01-18	17	5th	13 19 28 29 37 39
2013-11-16	3	3rd	16 18 37 42 43 45
2013-11-06	2	5th	17 20 32 36 37 41
2013-10-30	11	6th	11 23 25 28 34 37
2013-09-21	21	4th	1 20 33 37 41 45
2013-07-10	2	4th	8 9 21 37 40 46
2013-07-03	1	6th	2 6 26 29 31 37
2013-06-29	5	5th	6 8 17 28 37 49
2013-06-12	15	6th	11 19 23 27 33 37
2013-04-20	4	6th	3 8 12 14 23 37
2013-04-06	6	6th	12 22 24 25 36 37
2013-03-16	1	5th	2 12 23 29 37 47
2013-03-13	10	5th	12 27 30 33 37 40
2013-02-06	26	5th	8 18 20 25 37 38
2012-11-07	7	5th	3 8 17 18 37 44
2012-10-13	1	6th	10 11 16 18 24 37
2012-10-10	17	6th	8 13 14 25 35 37
2012-08-11	20	6th	2 11 12 22 27 37
2012-06-02	5	6th	4 10 31 33 36 37
2012-05-16	29	4th	6 12 32 37 39 43
2012-02-04	3	4th	9 24 34 37 44 46
2012-01-25	3	5th	5 10 17 23 37 45
2012-01-14	6	5th	2 6 9 30 37 40
2011-12-24	3	4th	25 26 29 37 39 42
2011-12-14	64	4th	4 19 36 37 38 48
2011-05-04	11	3rd	20 28 37 39 46 48
2011-03-26	2	5th	3 14 17 26 37 49
2011-03-19	15	5th	3 10 14 35 37 40
2011-01-26	11	5th	22 26 31 35 37 40
2010-12-15	1	5th	6 13 28 32 37 49
2010-12-11	6	6th	2 3 11 16 30 37
2010-11-20	10	4th	7 17 34 37 38 39
2010-10-16	2	5th	4 21 22 25 37 47
2010-10-09	2	5th	6 11 19 32 37 47
2010-10-02	9	6th	1 2 19 23 33 37
2010-09-01	1	2nd	13 37 39 41 43 46
2010-08-28	13	5th	8 12 33 34 37 44
2010-07-14	6	5th	6 21 27 32 37 49
2010-06-23	6	4th	9 23 34 37 38 43
2010-06-02	33	5th	1 6 11 16 37 45
2010-02-06	10	5th	6 16 29 31 37 48
2010-01-02	—	5th	14 21 28 31 37 38