In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 504 draws, 5 from 1–49.
39times drawn · chance expected 51 −1.83σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number
12.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
92longest completed wait · 0.2% chance of one at least that long
36 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 39 times in 504 draws against 51.4 expected, −1.83σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
36
Number 36, draw by draw
Drawn 39 times in 504 draws · average wait 12.9 draws · longest completed wait 92 · 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 36 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 2 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 36 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.
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: 36 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.