Number 13

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

8times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.41σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

14longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 52 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 14 · waiting 3 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 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 smallest1 · chance 1.4
2nd smallest5 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

43 51 4 21 39 41

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 52. 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
2026-09-29	12	3rd	6 10 13 22 23 43 49
2026-08-18	1	2nd	4 13 21 26 39 43 48
2026-08-14	3	1st	13 29 36 39 46 49 50

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.