Number 36

In Lotto under the 5/90 · since Oct 2025 rules — 113 draws, 5 from 1–90.

9times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.12σ

19draws waiting · a wait this long: 36% for any number

11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

26longest completed wait · 89% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.12σ. Each draw is independent: after 19 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 113 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 19 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.2
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.2
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.1
4th smallest2 · chance 1.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

71 7 18 28 38 1

Never drawn alongside 59 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 59 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 — 38th most popular of 90. 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
2026-08-27	26	2nd	6 36 46 58 64
2026-07-10	19	3rd	18 22 36 41 76
2026-06-06	5	4th	7 8 25 36 38
2025-12-27	8	2nd	28 36 52 71 78

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 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.