Number 37

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

78times drawn · chance expected 84 −0.71σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 57% for any number

10.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

57longest completed wait · 13% chance of one at least that long

37 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, −0.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 37, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 791 draws · average wait 10.0 draws · longest completed wait 57 · waiting 6 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 37 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 0.1
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.1
3rd smallest13 · chance 13.6
4th smallest32 · chance 34.1
5th smallest31 · chance 28.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 13 26 8 9 2

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 37 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 37 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-21	13	3rd	24 28 37 40 42
2026-08-06	29	5th	3 4 5 18 37
2026-04-27	6	3rd	6 13 37 42 43
2026-04-06	2	5th	1 2 11 26

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

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