Number 34

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 791 draws, 5 from 1–47.

94times drawn · chance expected 84 +1.14σ

18draws waiting · a wait this long: 15% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

30longest completed wait · 97% chance of one at least that long

34 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 94 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, +1.14σ. Each draw is independent: after 18 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 34, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 791 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 18 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 34 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 smallest1 · chance 0.4
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.4
3rd smallest16 · chance 23.7
4th smallest41 · chance 40.9
5th smallest31 · chance 23.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 3 6 2 11 13

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 34 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 47. 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 34 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-10	4	4th	1 14 30 34 46
2026-07-27	10	4th	6 14 15 34 39
2026-06-22	13	4th	1 16 32 34 38
2026-05-07	13	4th	8 13 26 34

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: 34 is drawn with probability 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-03-17	5	4th	1 28 31 34 44
2025-02-27	3	4th	10 18 27 34 36
2025-02-17	2	4th	16 25 26 34 41
2025-02-10	2	4th	1 10 14 34 39
2025-02-03	18	4th	3 13 23 34 39
2024-12-02	2	4th	3 25 31 34 37
2024-11-25	12	4th	18 29 31 34 38
2024-10-14	3	5th	3 15 28 32 34
2024-10-03	14	3rd	22 33 34 35 43
2024-08-15	4	4th	11 25 26 34 47
2024-08-01	7	5th	2 6 18 24 34
2024-07-08	1	2nd	11 34 35 44 45
2024-07-04	1	5th	5 10 14 19 34
2024-07-01	10	5th	4 6 8 19 34
2024-05-27	21	5th	4 7 13 28 34
2024-03-14	2	5th	4 11 22 25 34
2024-03-07	13	4th	11 29 32 34 42
2024-01-22	26	5th	6 23 26 27 34
2023-10-23	11	3rd	11 30 34 35 38
2023-09-14	29	4th	8 27 33 34 44
2023-06-05	1	4th	2 5 21 34 35
2023-06-01	27	4th	11 19 31 34 44
2023-02-27	5	3rd	23 28 34 45 46
2023-02-09	4	5th	4 16 17 21 34
2023-01-26	15	5th	2 13 28 30 34
2022-12-05	1	4th	19 23 31 34 43
2022-12-01	14	2nd	12 34 40 42 47
2022-10-13	7	3rd	6 15 34 42 46
2022-09-19	5	3rd	9 25 34 37 47
2022-09-01	2	4th	11 18 25 34 38
2022-08-25	11	5th	1 3 21 27 34
2022-07-18	15	4th	2 4 9 34 47
2022-05-26	12	3rd	2 3 34 39 46
2022-04-14	3	4th	11 17 28 34 42
2022-04-04	3	2nd	7 34 38 44 46
2022-03-24	13	1st	34 36 38 41 46
2022-02-07	2	3rd	5 31 34 36 47
2022-01-31	7	5th	3 4 7 29 34
2022-01-06	11	3rd	9 27 34 40 45
2021-11-29	1	4th	2 14 18 34 40
2021-11-25	6	5th	2 13 21 26 34
2021-11-04	5	5th	4 8 11 26 34
2021-10-18	10	4th	4 7 22 34 44
2021-09-13	2	4th	15 16 19 34 44
2021-09-06	4	5th	15 20 28 33 34
2021-08-23	4	4th	6 16 19 34 37
2021-08-09	12	5th	9 13 14 23 34
2021-06-28	24	5th	1 9 15 22 34
2021-04-05	4	5th	13 28 29 30 34
2021-03-22	15	4th	8 19 29 34 35
2021-01-28	3	4th	5 13 20 34 35
2021-01-18	2	3rd	13 22 34 35 46
2021-01-11	3	4th	4 20 32 34 44
2020-12-31	5	4th	15 26 33 34 44
2020-12-14	20	4th	5 9 18 34 43
2020-10-05	5	2nd	21 34 39 41 45
2020-09-17	9	4th	3 7 17 34 44
2020-08-17	22	4th	6 18 24 34 37
2020-06-01	30	4th	4 30 32 34 38
2020-02-17	7	3rd	1 12 34 37 41
2020-01-23	13	4th	7 9 27 34 42
2019-12-09	2	4th	3 11 13 34 43
2019-12-02	10	5th	8 20 22 33 34
2019-10-28	8	4th	5 25 31 34 41
2019-09-30	12	5th	4 6 20 29 34
2019-08-19	6	5th	3 4 5 7 34
2019-07-29	4	4th	18 21 23 34 39
2019-07-15	5	5th	2 17 23 27 34
2019-06-27	1	3rd	3 6 34 43 47
2019-06-24	—	5th	2 4 17 30 34