Number 3

In Lotto America under the 5/52 + 1/10 · since Nov 2017 rules — 1,152 draws, 5 from 1–52.

105times drawn · chance expected 111 −0.58σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 10.4

48longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 105 times in 1,152 draws against 110.8 expected, −0.58σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 105 times in 1,152 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 48 · waiting 14 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 smallest90 · chance 89.0
2nd smallest15 · chance 15.5
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.5
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 8.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 17 6 26 33 37

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 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 52. 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
2026-09-09	14	1st	3 4 44 47 49
2026-08-08	2	1st	3 30 31 34 50
2026-08-03	16	1st	3 11 27 41 48
2026-06-27	22	1st	3 8 18

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 5/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-11-06	1	1st	3 19 42 47 48
2024-11-04	4	1st	3 9 12 16 52
2024-10-26	3	2nd	2 3 25 42 47
2024-10-19	20	1st	3 10 28 34 47
2024-09-02	4	1st	3 6 7 27 39
2024-08-24	29	1st	3 19 21 28 32
2024-06-17	2	1st	3 12 28 29 35
2024-06-12	3	1st	3 11 16 30 44
2024-06-05	13	1st	3 15 17 43 49
2024-05-06	3	1st	3 6 11 17 30
2024-04-29	17	1st	3 14 31 32 50
2024-03-20	5	1st	3 16 29 44 50
2024-03-09	10	1st	3 27 33 37 52
2024-02-14	2	2nd	2 3 15 16 45
2024-02-10	4	2nd	1 3 18 21 42
2024-01-31	15	1st	3 30 38 39 48
2023-12-27	4	1st	3 10 36 47 52
2023-12-18	4	2nd	2 3 12 33 40
2023-12-09	3	1st	3 7 17 36 48
2023-12-02	3	1st	3 8 11 38 48
2023-11-25	7	1st	3 11 18 38 41
2023-11-08	6	2nd	1 3 23 45 52
2023-10-25	6	1st	3 8 27 41 46
2023-10-11	17	1st	3 6 9 17 51
2023-09-02	9	1st	3 17 36 37 44
2023-08-12	13	1st	3 16 26 29 30
2023-07-12	1	1st	3 5 18 22 36
2023-07-10	6	1st	3 26 30 47 51
2023-06-26	33	1st	3 31 33 34 38
2023-04-10	7	1st	3 10 12 15 37
2023-03-25	7	1st	3 17 29 41 52
2023-03-08	9	1st	3 7 29 31 49
2023-02-15	2	1st	3 11 32 37 43
2023-02-11	2	2nd	2 3 24 28 46
2023-02-06	24	1st	3 4 20 32 35
2022-12-12	9	1st	3 23 31 33 51
2022-11-21	2	1st	3 12 14 29 32
2022-11-16	14	1st	3 19 26 43 50
2022-10-15	9	1st	3 16 24 26 50
2022-09-24	33	1st	3 20 33 34 42
2022-07-06	4	2nd	1 3 8 14 50
2022-06-22	18	1st	3 13 33 37 45
2022-04-20	5	2nd	1 3 25 29 30
2022-04-02	7	1st	3 4 11 43 44
2022-03-09	4	2nd	1 3 6 8 49
2022-02-23	15	1st	3 13 29 47 52
2022-01-01	22	1st	3 23 33 50 51
2021-10-16	7	1st	3 10 17 40 48
2021-09-22	3	1st	3 16 35 37 41
2021-09-11	1	1st	3 14 36 38 52
2021-09-08	4	1st	3 19 36 44 51
2021-08-25	17	1st	3 37 38 43 50
2021-06-26	1	1st	3 6 8 40 49
2021-06-23	20	1st	3 9 16 19 38
2021-04-14	5	2nd	2 3 6 38 39
2021-03-27	26	1st	3 23 35 50 51
2020-12-26	48	1st	3 13 15 41 49
2020-07-11	5	1st	3 12 22 26 31
2020-06-24	3	1st	3 11 30 36 39
2020-06-13	4	1st	3 16 26 29 40
2020-05-30	13	1st	3 17 31 41 45
2020-04-15	14	1st	3 19 26 45 51
2020-02-26	16	2nd	2 3 29 30 40
2020-01-01	18	1st	3 26 30 44 48
2019-10-30	3	1st	3 6 28 32 44
2019-10-19	4	1st	3 11 27 31 40
2019-10-05	8	2nd	1 3 21 25 32
2019-09-07	8	1st	3 7 10 22 34
2019-08-10	13	1st	3 15 26 43 46
2019-06-26	18	1st	3 10 14 33 36
2019-04-24	28	1st	3 14 15 26 46
2019-01-16	10	1st	3 21 42 45 51
2018-12-12	6	2nd	2 3 13 22 49
2018-11-21	10	1st	3 24 25 33 39
2018-10-17	20	1st	3 8 15 21 37
2018-08-08	2	1st	3 20 28 31 37
2018-08-01	7	1st	3 8 24 25 50
2018-07-07	5	1st	3 6 13 38 40
2018-06-20	2	1st	3 10 11 13 52
2018-06-13	46	1st	3 17 21 35 42
2018-01-03	—	1st	3 18 22 33 43