Number 38

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.95σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

10.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

49longest completed wait · 2% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.9 draws · longest completed wait 49 · waiting 1 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 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.9
4th smallest3 · chance 3.5
5th smallest6 · chance 5.9
6th smallest4 · chance 3.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 8 22 26 28 46

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 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
2026-10-07	3	4th	12 28 30 38 42 49
2026-09-26	12	5th	8 29 34 36 38 43
2026-08-15	7	6th	10 13 19 21 22 38
2026-07-22	5	6th

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.