Number 38

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

14times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.08σ

26draws waiting · a wait this long: 3% for any number

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

15longest completed wait · 85% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.08σ. Each draw is independent: after 26 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 38, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 26 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 38 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.3
4th smallest2 · chance 2.1
5th smallest8 · chance 6.0
6th smallest4 · chance 5.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

39 10 7 8 11 15

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-11	2	6th	8 10 19 28 33 38
2026-03-28	10	6th	1 2 5 7 34 38
2026-01-17	3	5th	3 11 16 24 38 39
2025-12-27	4	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: 38 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.