Number 38

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

7times drawn · chance expected 11 −1.36σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

13.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

31longest completed wait · 11% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −1.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 92 draws · average wait 13.5 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 7 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.4
4th smallest2 · chance 1.7
5th smallest3 · chance 3.0
6th smallest2 · chance 1.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 27 28 29 34 49

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 23 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 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-16	8	4th	28 30 34 38 44 46
2026-08-19	31	5th	2 16 29 34 38 49
2026-05-02	2	5th	3 4 19 22 38 48
2026-04-25	11	4th

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.