Number 13

In New York Lotto under the 6/59 + 1/55 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 rules — 83 draws, 6 from 1–59 (an earlier era).

13times drawn · chance expected 8 +1.66σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

13longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 83 draws against 8.4 expected, +1.66σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 83 draws · average wait 6.3 draws · longest completed wait 13 · 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 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 3.9
2nd smallest7 · chance 5.6
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.8
4th smallest1 · chance 0.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 40 46 52 1 9

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 58 numbers; chance expects about 19 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 59. 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
2010-10-16	2	3rd	1 11 13 14 27 40
2010-10-09	3	2nd	8 13 15 16 39 53
2010-09-29	13	2nd	8 13 20 35 41 52

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 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.