In Oz Lotto under the 7/47 + 3/47 · since May 2022 rules — 230 draws, 7 from 1–47.
38times drawn · chance expected 34 +0.69σ
6draws waiting · a wait this long: 45% for any number
6.0average wait between appearances · chance says 6.7
26longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long
27 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 38 times in 230 draws against 34.3 expected, +0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 14 times, counted separately.
27
Number 27, draw by draw
Drawn 38 times in 230 draws · average wait 6.0 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 27 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.3 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 47. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 27 is drawn with probability 7/47 tonight whatever it did last week.