Number 3

In Lotto under the 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 rules — 847 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).

98times drawn · chance expected 98 +0.03σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 69% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

37longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 98 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, +0.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 9 times, counted separately.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 98 times in 847 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 4 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 3 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 smallest78 · chance 79.6
2nd smallest18 · chance 17.7
3rd smallest2 · chance 0.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 25 41 10 18 28

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 52. 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-06	3	1st	3 12 28 39 41 50
2025-08-27	6	1st	3 11 17 28 44 52
2025-08-06	20	1st	3 5 18 26 31 49
2025-05-28	1	3rd

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: 3 is drawn with probability 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-10-25	14	1st	3 4 13 24 25 39
2023-09-06	23	1st	3 13 32 35 49 50
2023-06-17	16	1st	3 4 11 33 44 48
2023-04-22	2	1st	3 7 28 29 35 52
2023-04-15	23	1st	3 18 35 36 39 42
2023-01-25	5	1st	3 6 9 11 31 39
2023-01-07	13	1st	3 4 19 25 27 32
2022-11-23	17	1st	3 8 10 12 19 27
2022-09-24	7	1st	3 18 28 29 36 44
2022-08-31	12	1st	3 9 13 25 31 39
2022-07-20	2	1st	3 6 15 30 41 45
2022-07-13	15	1st	3 6 9 10 29 51
2022-05-21	11	2nd	2 3 7 20 28 37
2022-04-13	6	1st	3 17 22 27 31 39
2022-03-23	1	1st	3 6 10 30 38 48
2022-03-19	15	1st	3 9 23 41 42 48
2022-01-26	20	1st	3 17 38 44 46 50
2021-11-13	2	1st	3 19 20 35 39 41
2021-11-06	5	1st	3 22 25 30 38 45
2021-10-20	3	1st	3 17 24 35 42 43
2021-10-09	15	1st	3 5 10 32 37 40
2021-08-18	3	1st	3 14 29 30 33 35
2021-08-07	5	1st	3 13 25 26 31 50
2021-07-21	9	1st	3 6 13 23 28 31
2021-06-19	30	1st	3 10 13 14 38 51
2021-03-06	4	1st	3 18 20 40 41 43
2021-02-20	1	1st	3 8 16 21 38 41
2021-02-17	6	2nd	1 3 6 25 35 43
2021-01-27	4	2nd	2 3 13 15 38 42
2021-01-13	15	2nd	1 3 15 25 36 48
2020-11-21	14	1st	3 9 12 14 22 52
2020-10-03	2	1st	3 23 26 27 42 51
2020-09-26	20	1st	3 7 18 21 27 42
2020-07-18	3	1st	3 17 30 32 36 42
2020-07-08	4	1st	3 8 10 16 17 43
2020-06-24	3	1st	3 9 14 19 21 24
2020-06-13	5	2nd	2 3 12 13 32 47
2020-05-27	15	1st	3 9 15 24 39 42
2020-04-04	4	1st	3 4 10 21 24 43
2020-03-21	12	1st	3 13 36 45 47 50
2020-02-08	1	1st	3 28 37 41 42 51
2020-02-05	12	1st	3 6 20 21 41 45
2019-12-21	2	2nd	1 3 15 29 35 45
2019-12-14	1	2nd	2 3 6 23 34 49
2019-12-11	2	1st	3 6 18 28 31 50
2019-12-04	16	1st	3 14 25 39 48 51
2019-10-09	3	1st	3 8 27 44 49 50
2019-09-28	10	1st	3 17 24 28 42 46
2019-08-24	7	1st	3 13 18 26 33 47
2019-07-31	11	2nd	2 3 10 18 45 48
2019-06-22	9	1st	3 9 10 33 48 52
2019-05-22	5	2nd	2 3 23 24 50 52
2019-05-04	20	1st	3 27 32 34 41 50
2019-02-23	9	2nd	2 3 13 25 40 52
2019-01-23	4	1st	3 5 24 28 32 38
2019-01-09	9	1st	3 8 15 26 32 43
2018-12-08	18	1st	3 7 12 21 27 29
2018-10-06	1	1st	3 19 27 40 41 44
2018-10-03	2	1st	3 35 37 43 44 49
2018-09-26	10	2nd	1 3 29 37 40 41
2018-08-22	24	2nd	2 3 21 23 41 46
2018-05-30	15	1st	3 6 7 14 30 46
2018-04-07	4	1st	3 10 11 13 28 35
2018-03-24	4	2nd	1 3 12 24 31 49
2018-03-10	13	2nd	2 3 5 11 17 23
2018-01-24	6	1st	3 18 19 24 32 40
2018-01-03	2	1st	3 24 31 35 37 43
2017-12-27	10	1st	3 10 20 42 48 49
2017-11-22	1	1st	3 16 25 26 29 48
2017-11-18	2	1st	3 36 38 39 43 52
2017-11-11	3	1st	3 21 28 30 46 51
2017-11-01	12	1st	3 12 28 42 43 47
2017-09-20	5	1st	3 7 22 24 34 37
2017-09-02	—	2nd	1 3 4 21 25 30