Number 3

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

8times drawn · chance expected 11 −1.04σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 14% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

19longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −1.04σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 92 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 16 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 smallest7 · chance 6.4
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.5
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

48 4 28 7 9 22

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 21 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 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
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
2026-08-15	1	1st	3 4 27 28 30 37
2026-08-12	3	1st	3 6 7 9 27 48
2026-08-01	7	1st	3 10 23 24 25 33
2026-07-08	19	2nd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.