Number 32

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.79σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

24longest completed wait · 75% chance of one at least that long

32 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, +0.79σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 32, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 139 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 7 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 32 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 0.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.8
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.5
4th smallest8 · chance 6.7
5th smallest2 · chance 2.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 16 20 24 39 44

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 32 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 32 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-04	3	5th	15 17 20 24 32
2026-10-01	7	4th	12 13 16 32 44
2026-09-24	6	5th	8 17 20 25 32
2026-09-18	1	3rd	20 26

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