Number 36

In Lotto Plus 2 under the 6/47 + 1/47 · since Sep 2024 rules — 213 draws, 6 from 1–47.

17times drawn · chance expected 27 −2.09σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

12.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8

40longest completed wait · 8% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 213 draws against 27.2 expected, −2.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 4 times, counted separately.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 213 draws · average wait 12.2 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 12 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 36 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 1.2
4th smallest3 · chance 4.5
5th smallest6 · chance 7.1
6th smallest7 · chance 4.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 24 29 35 7 10

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 46 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 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 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-29	9	6th	2 10 18 28 30 36
2026-07-29	16	6th	4 12 13 23 29 36
2026-06-03	5	5th	3 5 19 29 36 43
2026-05-16	3	6th	24

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