Number 38

In Rolling Cash 5 under the 5/39 · since Apr 2010 rules — 6,025 draws, 5 from 1–39.

776times drawn · chance expected 772 +0.14σ

18draws waiting · a wait this long: 10% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8

60longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 776 times in 6,025 draws against 772.4 expected, +0.14σ. Each draw is independent: after 18 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 776 times in 6,025 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 60 · 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 38 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest78 · chance 81.7
5th smallest698 · chance 694.3

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.

11 36 6 29 16 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, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-24	4	5th	8 14 16 21 38
2026-09-20	27	5th	12 19 22 27 38
2026-08-24	12	5th	5 8 10 37 38
2026-08-12	4	5th	6 13 23

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: 38 is drawn with probability 5/39 tonight whatever it did last week.