Number 30

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

18times drawn · chance expected 16 +0.47σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

27longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

30 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, +0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 30, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 159 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 1 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 30 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 0.4
2nd smallest4 · chance 2.6
3rd smallest5 · chance 6.4
4th smallest8 · chance 6.4
5th smallest1 · chance 2.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

43 19 3 11 18 25

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 30 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 30 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	2	4th	1 2 13 30 43
2026-10-01	1	2nd	25 30 36 44 48
2026-09-28	2	3rd	3 5 30 32 48
2026-09-21	3	3rd	3 18 30 35

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: 30 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.