Number 3

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.32σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

31longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.32σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 159 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 31 · 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 3 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 smallest11 · chance 12.6
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.3
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 30 1 5 9 11

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	2	1st	3 5 30 32 48
2026-09-21	3	1st	3 18 30 35 44
2026-09-10	6	1st	3 19 30 31 43
2026-08-20	10	1st	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: 3 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.