Number 37

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

13times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.47σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 18% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

23longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 120 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 14 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 37 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 0.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.1
4th smallest2 · chance 3.6
5th smallest6 · chance 5.4
6th smallest5 · chance 2.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 35 36 29 32 4

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 37 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-10-01	11	5th	17 32 33 36 37 43
2025-08-23	4	5th	20 23 31 35 37 45
2025-08-09	6	4th	17 19 36 37 41 46

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: 37 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.