Number 30

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

12times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.85σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 35% for any number

9.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

26longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

30 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 30, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 9.0 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 8 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 30 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.3
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.6
4th smallest4 · chance 4.0
5th smallest5 · chance 4.4
6th smallest2 · chance 1.7

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.

8 23 2 11 26 29

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, 30 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 30 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-10	20	4th	7 23 24 30 37 39
2026-07-02	4	5th	3 14 23 26 30 31
2026-06-18	10	5th	8 11 20 26 30 43
2026-05-14	26	4th

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: 30 is drawn with probability 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.