Number 39

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

14times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.05σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 81% for any number

9.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

23longest completed wait · 72% chance of one at least that long

39 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, −0.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 39, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 139 draws · average wait 9.8 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 39 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 smallest0 · chance 0.3
3rd smallest0 · chance 2.3
4th smallest3 · chance 6.1
5th smallest11 · chance 5.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 14 32 9 16 23

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 39 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 39 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	19	5th	9 15 23 27 39
2026-09-19	8	5th	12 15 17 34 39
2026-09-11	2	4th	3 5 6 39 49
2026-09-09	7	5th	1 15

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