Number 36

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

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.76σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

25longest completed wait · 72% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.76σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 140 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 1 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 36 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 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 4.1
4th smallest11 · chance 7.4
5th smallest4 · chance 4.6

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.

23 26 2 5 6 7

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 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 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-11	1	4th	2 5 14 36 41
2026-10-10	18	4th	5 9 17 36 42
2026-09-22	6	5th	2 13 24 28 36
2026-09-16	8	4th	21 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: 36 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.