Number 30

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

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.64σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

22longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

30 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.64σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 4 times, counted separately.

Number 30, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 4 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 30 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 smallest1 · chance 0.4
3rd smallest4 · chance 2.0
4th smallest2 · chance 4.2
5th smallest4 · chance 3.9
6th smallest1 · chance 1.3

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.

15 28 12 13 32 41

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 30 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 30 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-12	16	3rd	11 20 30 32 33 34
2026-05-23	7	6th	6 12 15 22 28 30
2026-04-04	10	2nd	28 30 31 37 41 45
2026-01-24	17	5th

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