Number 23

In Roadrunner Cash under the 5/37 · since Apr 2010 rules — 5,703 draws, 5 from 1–37.

768times drawn · chance expected 771 −0.10σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

69longest completed wait · 4% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 768 times in 5,703 draws against 770.7 expected, −0.10σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 768 times in 5,703 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 69 · waiting 4 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 23 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 smallest9 · chance 13.1
2nd smallest108 · chance 104.4
3rd smallest290 · chance 274.1
4th smallest275 · chance 281.1
5th smallest86 · chance 95.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 85.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 25 22 6 26 7

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 36 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 37. 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 23 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	9	4th	1 6 18 23 37
2026-09-29	1	3rd	2 20 23 32 33
2026-09-28	17	1st	23 28 30 33 35
2026-09-11	4	3rd	12 19

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: 23 is drawn with probability 5/37 tonight whatever it did last week.