Number 38

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

10times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.95σ

20draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

6.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

13longest completed wait · 88% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 20 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 38, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.4 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 20 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 38 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 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.6
4th smallest1 · chance 2.5
5th smallest6 · chance 4.2
6th smallest1 · chance 2.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 35 8 18 19 21

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 38 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-01	1	5th	17 21 25 28 38 47
2026-07-29	1	2nd	6 38 39 41 43 46
2026-07-25	9	5th	5 10 26 36 38 39
2026-06-24	12	6th

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