Number 38

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

7times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.00σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

23longest completed wait · 22% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.00σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 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 38, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 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 smallest1 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.3
4th smallest2 · chance 1.1
5th smallest1 · chance 2.3
6th smallest2 · chance 2.4
7th smallest0 · chance 0.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

44 49 52 1 7 23

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 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 — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-25	3	3rd	8 24 38 41 43 50 52
2026-09-15	1	4th	2 23 30 38 40 44 49
2026-09-11	13	2nd	1 38 41 44 45 49 51

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.