In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 505 draws, 5 from 1–49.
60times drawn · chance expected 52 +1.25σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number
8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
30longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long
13 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 60 times in 505 draws against 51.5 expected, +1.25σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
13
Number 13, draw by draw
Drawn 60 times in 505 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 4 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.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 0.3 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.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.