Number 35

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

8times drawn · chance expected 8 −0.16σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

26longest completed wait · 39% chance of one at least that long

35 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 83 draws against 8.4 expected, −0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 35, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 83 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 5 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 35 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 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.6
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.0
4th smallest2 · chance 2.9
5th smallest2 · chance 1.9
6th smallest1 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 52 13 20 22 26

Never drawn alongside 29 of the other 58 numbers; chance expects about 29 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 35 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 35 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2010-09-29	14	4th	8 13 20 35 41 52
2010-08-11	6	5th	9 21 28 30 35 51
2010-07-21	7	3rd	22 28 35 39 52 55

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: 35 is drawn with probability 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.