Number 30

In Show Me Cash under the 5/39 · since Apr 2010 rules — 6,020 draws, 5 from 1–39.

776times drawn · chance expected 772 +0.16σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8

54longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

30 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 776 times in 6,020 draws against 771.8 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 30, draw by draw

Drawn 776 times in 6,020 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 54 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest3 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest16 · chance 25.6
3rd smallest169 · chance 153.7
4th smallest345 · chance 345.7
5th smallest243 · chance 249.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 81.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 5 37 34 21 17

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 38 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 39. 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
2026-10-11	6	3rd	4 5 30 35 39
2026-10-05	1	4th	2 4 18 30 37
2026-10-04	3	3rd	4 16 30 32 38
2026-10-01	2	5th	3 4 20

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 5/39 tonight whatever it did last week.