Number 3

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

7times drawn · chance expected 10 −0.85σ

25draws waiting · a wait this long: 11% for any number

13.3average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

49longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, −0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 25 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws · average wait 13.3 draws · longest completed wait 49 · waiting 25 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 3 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 smallest6 · chance 6.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 19 43 2 5 8

Never drawn alongside 26 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 27 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-18	8	1st	3 8 13 28
2026-02-21	15	1st	3 10 19 32
2025-11-08	2	1st	3 12 14 21
2025-10-25	5	1st	3 16 36 43

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: 3 is drawn with probability 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.