Number 31

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

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

35longest completed wait · 11% chance of one at least that long

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −1.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 120 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 35 · waiting 2 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 31 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 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.6
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.3
4th smallest6 · chance 4.0
5th smallest2 · chance 3.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.9

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.

34 43 5 6 9 16

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 31 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-11-15	1	3rd	12 25 31 34 46 48
2025-11-08	1	4th	1 9 15 31 43 44
2025-11-05	2	4th	6 21 22 31 34 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: 31 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.