Number 13

In Lotto Plus 1 under the 6/47 + 1/47 · since Sep 2024 rules — 213 draws, 6 from 1–47.

16times drawn · chance expected 27 −2.30σ

37draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.7% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8

38longest completed wait · 9% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 213 draws against 27.2 expected, −2.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 37 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 5 times, counted separately.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 213 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 37 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 13 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest2 · chance 3.2
2nd smallest8 · chance 6.5
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.6
4th smallest1 · chance 1.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 21 32 46 1 31

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 46 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
The number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-06-03	17	2nd	9 13 21 22 32 33
2026-04-04	4	4th	1 5 8 13 24 46
2026-03-21	33	2nd	12 13 34 37 41 46
2025-11-26	8	3rd	7

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: 13 is drawn with probability 6/47 tonight whatever it did last week.