Number 13

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.56σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

26longest completed wait · 60% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws against 16.1 expected, −0.56σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 26 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 4.2
2nd smallest4 · chance 6.2
3rd smallest6 · chance 3.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 10 26 36 46 3

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 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
2026-10-08	10	3rd	1 2 13 30 43
2026-09-03	2	1st	13 17 18 36 46
2026-08-27	2	3rd	5 9 13 38 39
2026-08-20	26	3rd	3 10 13 23

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.