Number 3

In VinciCasa under the 5/40 · since Sep 2024 rules — 735 draws, 5 from 1–40.

85times drawn · chance expected 92 −0.77σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 26% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.0

33longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 85 times in 735 draws against 91.9 expected, −0.77σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 85 times in 735 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 11 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 3 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 smallest68 · chance 68.3
2nd smallest17 · chance 16.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.7
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 34 10 13 14 21

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 39 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 40. 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-01	15	1st	3 21 22 34 36
2026-09-16	1	1st	3 32 34 35 39
2026-09-15	3	1st	3 7 10 16 34
2026-09-12	5	2nd	1 3 21 31

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: 3 is drawn with probability 5/40 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-02	3	1st	3 13 28 31 39
2026-03-30	9	1st	3 11 15 31 38
2026-03-21	4	1st	3 10 24 27 32
2026-03-17	7	1st	3 6 13 28 30
2026-03-10	17	2nd	1 3 18 30 36
2026-02-21	2	1st	3 11 16 31 34
2026-02-19	18	1st	3 4 14 16 22
2026-02-01	3	1st	3 8 13 14 17
2026-01-29	3	1st	3 7 15 28 36
2026-01-26	22	1st	3 9 10 16 21
2026-01-04	16	1st	3 6 18 29 37
2025-12-18	10	1st	3 21 22 26 36
2025-12-08	4	1st	3 6 24 29 34
2025-12-04	20	1st	3 16 18 22 34
2025-11-05	6	1st	3 9 17 20 39
2025-10-30	33	1st	3 5 24 29 39
2025-09-25	7	1st	3 7 16 27 39
2025-09-18	3	2nd	2 3 8 18 27
2025-09-15	1	1st	3 8 10 32 34
2025-09-14	8	1st	3 10 14 32 39
2025-09-06	25	2nd	2 3 7 10 40
2025-08-12	1	1st	3 16 17 19 26
2025-08-11	1	1st	3 21 26 35 39
2025-08-10	8	1st	3 14 15 20 23
2025-08-02	10	1st	3 12 13 19 37
2025-07-23	2	1st	3 5 13 17 22
2025-07-21	11	1st	3 22 32 37 40
2025-07-10	5	2nd	1 3 5 21 31
2025-07-05	7	1st	3 4 6 7 15
2025-06-28	4	1st	3 7 11 13 17
2025-06-24	3	1st	3 8 13 23 38
2025-06-21	17	1st	3 5 32 34 37
2025-06-04	6	1st	3 13 20 21 24
2025-05-29	5	1st	3 10 29 31 38
2025-05-24	15	2nd	2 3 13 14 32
2025-05-09	10	1st	3 14 21 31 34
2025-04-29	5	1st	3 4 8 10 33
2025-04-24	7	1st	3 8 26 32 37
2025-04-17	8	1st	3 11 14 18 35
2025-04-09	7	1st	3 12 18 20 26
2025-04-02	5	1st	3 9 10 15 31
2025-03-28	5	1st	3 4 16 39 40
2025-03-23	2	1st	3 11 28 32 36
2025-03-21	20	2nd	1 3 8 9 38
2025-03-01	6	2nd	1 3 6 17 20
2025-02-23	16	1st	3 8 20 25 34
2025-02-07	14	1st	3 18 20 21 24
2025-01-24	1	2nd	1 3 21 27 29
2025-01-23	2	1st	3 5 6 30 34
2025-01-21	22	1st	3 10 24 30 33
2024-12-30	4	1st	3 19 23 31 37
2024-12-26	7	1st	3 19 20 22 25
2024-12-19	6	2nd	2 3 5 17 28
2024-12-13	15	1st	3 11 21 27 34
2024-11-28	4	1st	3 10 15 34 39
2024-11-24	4	2nd	1 3 6 24 29
2024-11-20	6	1st	3 9 16 23 32
2024-11-14	27	1st	3 9 23 25 30
2024-10-18	10	2nd	2 3 14 24 31
2024-10-08	1	1st	3 14 29 32 40
2024-10-07	—	1st	3 14 22 26 34