Number 31

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 2/10 · since Sep 2025 rules — 152 draws, 5 from 1–35.

18times drawn · chance expected 22 −0.86σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 34% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

23longest completed wait · 44% chance of one at least that long

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 152 draws against 21.7 expected, −0.86σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 152 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 8 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 31 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 smallest1 · chance 1.0
4th smallest7 · chance 6.3
5th smallest10 · chance 10.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

33 3 15 27 2 4

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 4 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 31 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 35. 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 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-02	6	5th	8 14 16 25 31
2026-08-19	3	5th	2 3 4 15 31
2026-08-12	8	4th	2 13 29 31 33
2026-07-24	2	4th	7 15 27

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: 31 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.