Number 13

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

12times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.85σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 55% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

24longest completed wait · 30% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 5 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 smallest0 · chance 2.0
2nd smallest6 · chance 4.6
3rd smallest5 · chance 3.8
4th smallest1 · chance 1.3
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 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

38 29 4 16 23 28

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 43. 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
2026-09-21	12	2nd	9 13 14 22 28 29
2026-08-10	24	3rd	1 8 13 23 38 41
2026-05-18	24	3rd	4 6 13 16 22 38
2026-02-23	2	2nd

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.