Number 31

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 641 draws, 5 from 1–34.

86times drawn · chance expected 94 −0.92σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 15% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

29longest completed wait · 63% chance of one at least that long

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 641 draws against 94.3 expected, −0.92σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 86 times in 641 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 13 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.7
4th smallest27 · chance 25.6
5th smallest58 · chance 57.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 20 27 33 16 29

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 34. 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
2026-09-28	21	5th	1 12 13 28 31
2026-09-07	12	5th	6 9 15 21 31
2026-08-26	13	5th	3 7 9 26 31
2026-08-13	9	5th	12 15 26 27

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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-02-27	12	5th	4 6 14 27 31
2026-02-15	2	4th	14 18 20 31 33
2026-02-13	7	5th	1 16 19 29 31
2026-02-06	4	5th	13 22 24 30 31
2026-02-02	12	4th	7 18 19 31 33
2026-01-21	1	4th	12 14 27 31 34
2026-01-20	4	5th	12 20 22 27 31
2026-01-16	3	5th	5 8 11 13 31
2026-01-13	1	5th	1 12 15 23 31
2026-01-12	27	5th	4 16 21 28 31
2025-12-16	2	5th	17 27 29 30 31
2025-12-14	5	5th	1 2 12 16 31
2025-12-09	1	5th	2 12 14 23 31
2025-12-08	9	4th	16 21 28 31 33
2025-11-29	6	5th	5 9 19 20 31
2025-11-23	4	3rd	20 25 31 32 33
2025-11-19	2	5th	2 4 11 14 31
2025-11-17	1	5th	20 23 24 30 31
2025-11-16	1	5th	14 20 22 25 31
2025-11-15	1	5th	1 15 24 27 31
2025-11-14	9	5th	4 20 22 25 31
2025-11-05	1	4th	2 24 27 31 33
2025-11-04	6	5th	1 13 14 21 31
2025-10-29	14	5th	19 21 23 29 31
2025-10-15	11	5th	9 15 19 20 31
2025-10-04	2	4th	11 14 27 31 32
2025-10-02	1	4th	4 17 29 31 33
2025-10-01	1	4th	1 16 25 31 33
2025-09-30	1	5th	7 10 20 29 31
2025-09-29	6	4th	11 15 21 31 33
2025-09-23	3	5th	8 13 25 27 31
2025-09-20	6	5th	15 18 20 23 31
2025-09-14	3	4th	13 20 26 31 34
2025-09-11	3	5th	15 16 17 30 31
2025-09-08	3	4th	8 10 30 31 32
2025-09-05	1	5th	17 23 26 29 31
2025-09-04	9	4th	15 20 28 31 34
2025-08-26	11	5th	12 16 17 18 31
2025-08-15	2	5th	2 22 28 29 31
2025-08-13	1	5th	3 9 22 28 31
2025-08-12	1	5th	1 10 15 24 31
2025-08-11	10	5th	1 2 4 25 31
2025-08-01	13	4th	5 26 30 31 32
2025-07-19	26	4th	3 10 18 31 33
2025-06-23	4	4th	1 28 29 31 32
2025-06-19	7	4th	23 24 26 31 32
2025-06-12	12	4th	3 13 18 31 32
2025-05-31	17	4th	1 19 29 31 34
2025-05-14	6	4th	1 9 17 31 32
2025-05-08	20	5th	5 25 27 28 31
2025-04-18	1	5th	8 10 25 27 31
2025-04-17	3	4th	2 15 26 31 33
2025-04-14	4	5th	3 7 19 21 31
2025-04-10	2	4th	6 7 13 31 32
2025-04-08	1	5th	7 11 19 29 31
2025-04-07	22	5th	4 7 9 29 31
2025-03-16	15	5th	7 16 20 22 31
2025-03-01	29	5th	1 2 25 29 31
2025-01-31	5	4th	11 18 25 31 32
2025-01-26	8	5th	16 17 24 27 31
2025-01-18	5	5th	7 16 18 20 31
2025-01-13	—	5th	11 14 22 30 31