Number 38

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

14times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.58σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

12.2average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

22longest completed wait · 76% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.58σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 159 draws · average wait 12.2 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.6
4th smallest6 · chance 6.1
5th smallest5 · chance 4.8

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.

24 25 47 1 5 7

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 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
2026-10-12	13	5th	8 26 33 36 38
2026-08-27	22	4th	5 9 13 38 39
2026-06-11	19	5th	4 6 12 21 38
2026-04-06	14	5th	8 17 29 33

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.