Number 3

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

16times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.26σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

16longest completed wait · 81% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, +0.26σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 4 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 smallest9 · chance 12.4
2nd smallest7 · chance 3.4
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 38 8 10 23 6

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 6 such strangers 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 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
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
2026-09-24	8	2nd	2 3 6 20 35 39
2026-08-27	16	1st	3 7 17 36 40 41
2026-07-02	1	1st	3 14 23 26 30 31
2026-06-29	2	1st

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.