Number 13

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

16times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.49σ

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

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

23longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.49σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 13 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest3 · chance 3.0
2nd smallest7 · chance 6.4
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.8
4th smallest0 · chance 1.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 28 39 35 40 2

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	2	3rd	2 7 13 27 39 40
2026-09-19	3	3rd	11 12 13 29 37 39
2026-08-29	15	2nd	7 13 16 26 36 37
2026-05-16	3	2nd

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: 13 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.