Number 13

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 99 draws, 6 from 1–42.

16times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.53σ

18draws waiting · a wait this long: 7% for any number

5.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

13longest completed wait · 92% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, +0.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 18 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 99 draws · average wait 5.1 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 18 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 smallest3 · chance 2.5
2nd smallest5 · chance 6.1
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.1
4th smallest3 · chance 1.9
5th smallest1 · chance 0.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 10 9 15 17 19

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 6 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 42. 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
2026-08-08	13	1st	13 16 19 21 28 31
2026-06-24	1	1st	13 18 19 29 32 38
2026-06-20	4	2nd	8 13 23 24 25 36
2026-06-06	7	5th

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.