In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.
30times drawn · chance expected 18 +3.10σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
4.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2
18longest completed wait · 96% chance of one at least that long
30 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 49 numbers
Drawn 30 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, +3.10σ. Testing all 49 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4 and this does not pass it.
30
Number 30, draw by draw
Drawn 30 times in 145 draws · average wait 4.9 draws · longest completed wait 18 · drawn in the most recent draw
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 30 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, 30 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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: 30 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.