In Bucko under the 5/41 · since May 2025 rules — 483 draws, 5 from 1–41.
79times drawn · chance expected 59 +2.79σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number
6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2
29longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long
19 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 41 numbers
Drawn 79 times in 483 draws against 58.9 expected, +2.79σ. Testing all 41 numbers at once means about 0.4 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.4e-4 and this does not pass it.
19
Number 19, draw by draw
Drawn 79 times in 483 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 4 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 19 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 19 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 41. 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: 19 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.