Number 38

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

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 83% for any number

16.5average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

36longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, −0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws · average wait 16.5 draws · longest completed wait 36 · 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 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 0.4
3rd smallest0 · chance 2.5
4th smallest7 · chance 4.1

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.

30 1 17 2 10 14

Never drawn alongside 27 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 27 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
2026-09-19	10	4th	2 10 32 38
2026-07-11	36	4th	17 23 30 38
2025-11-01	17	4th	14 27 34 38
2025-07-05	11	4th	1 26 35 38

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.