Number 13

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/46 · Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 rules — 120 draws, 6 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

11times drawn · chance expected 15 −1.03σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 35% for any number

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

20longest completed wait · 58% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −1.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 120 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 9 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 smallest2 · chance 2.4
2nd smallest3 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.0
4th smallest3 · chance 0.9
5th smallest1 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 7 14 1 5 6

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 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 49. 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
2025-10-18	12	2nd	4 13 15 21 41 47
2025-09-06	2	3rd	4 10 13 14 19 34
2025-08-30	1	2nd	12 13 14 28 38 44

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.