Number 13

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.36σ

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

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

30longest completed wait · 22% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.36σ. 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 2 times, counted separately.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 30 · 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 13 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 smallest4 · chance 2.6
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.3
4th smallest0 · chance 1.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

42 2 15 17 21 26

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-16	30	2nd	7 13 15 26 37 40
2026-06-03	5	3rd	4 5 13 16 17 35
2026-05-16	16	1st	13 17 22 23 26 47
2026-03-21	10	2nd

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