Number 36

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

13times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.07σ

22draws waiting · a wait this long: 6% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

30longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.07σ. Each draw is independent: after 22 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 22 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 36 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 0.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.3
4th smallest5 · chance 3.9
5th smallest4 · chance 5.2
6th smallest3 · chance 2.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 26 27 3 10 11

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 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 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-25	3	4th	5 10 26 36 38 39
2026-07-15	3	6th	4 11 22 27 33 36
2026-07-04	21	5th	2 22 24 26 36 40
2026-04-22	4	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: 36 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.