Number 31

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

17times drawn · chance expected 13 +1.11σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

20longest completed wait · 75% chance of one at least that long

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, +1.11σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 108 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 5 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 31 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 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.5
4th smallest8 · chance 6.2
5th smallest5 · chance 4.9
6th smallest1 · chance 1.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 46 1 12 17 3

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 31 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-23	1	5th	6 7 9 30 31 43
2026-09-19	2	3rd	16 17 31 35 40 45
2026-09-12	4	4th	6 18 19 31 35 42
2026-08-29	3	4th

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