Number 31

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 234 draws, 5 from 1–58.

18times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.51σ

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

11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

39longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 234 draws against 20.2 expected, −0.51σ. Each draw is independent: after 26 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 234 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 26 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 31 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 0.8
2nd smallest1 · chance 4.0
3rd smallest10 · chance 7.0
4th smallest5 · chance 5.0
5th smallest2 · chance 1.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 4 19 30 15 18

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 16 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 31 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 58. 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-17	39	4th	7 28 30 31 58
2026-08-09	8	3rd	8 22 31 57 58
2026-08-01	33	3rd	15 18 31 32 47
2026-06-29	1	4th	4 25

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: 31 is drawn with probability 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.