Number 33

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.76σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 20% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

28longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

33 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.76σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 33, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 140 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 16 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 33 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 smallest0 · chance 1.6
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.2
4th smallest5 · chance 6.9
5th smallest4 · chance 3.1

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.

9 12 24 26 2 3

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 33 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 33 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-26	3	3rd	9 11 33 40 42
2026-09-23	7	3rd	5 24 33 34 49
2026-09-16	2	3rd	21 26 33 36 44
2026-09-14	17	5th	7 14

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