Number 29

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 539 draws, 5 from 1–38.

82times drawn · chance expected 71 +1.41σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 37% for any number

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

30longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 82 times in 539 draws against 70.9 expected, +1.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 10 times, counted separately.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 82 times in 539 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 30 · 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 29 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 smallest1 · chance 0.2
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest21 · chance 16.9
4th smallest34 · chance 36.6
5th smallest23 · chance 25.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

38 27 12 17 30 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 29 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 38. 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 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	11	5th	2 19 20 22 29
2026-09-22	9	4th	1 13 15 29 30
2026-09-13	2	4th	4 10 25 29 30
2026-09-11	9	3rd	20 23 29

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

2026-05-07	2	5th	12 13 19 22 29
2026-05-05	1	4th	11 27 28 29 33
2026-05-04	4	4th	3 4 13 29 38
2026-04-30	4	4th	9 11 20 29 32
2026-04-26	2	4th	1 23 28 29 38
2026-04-24	16	4th	5 11 19 29 36
2026-04-08	1	4th	7 9 21 29 36
2026-04-07	5	4th	2 3 10 29 38
2026-04-02	2	4th	6 11 25 29 31
2026-03-31	6	3rd	13 24 29 33 38
2026-03-25	4	3rd	9 28 29 35 38
2026-03-21	9	4th	1 18 27 29 36
2026-03-12	10	4th	2 19 20 29 30
2026-03-02	5	3rd	10 24 29 31 34
2026-02-25	1	3rd	10 26 29 32 35
2026-02-24	1	5th	4 16 17 27 29
2026-02-23	11	5th	4 12 17 24 29
2026-02-12	1	3rd	15 27 29 32 37
2026-02-11	4	4th	6 7 23 29 34
2026-02-07	2	5th	10 13 20 27 29
2026-02-05	2	5th	5 12 14 28 29
2026-02-03	8	5th	2 16 17 26 29
2026-01-26	3	4th	1 16 27 29 32
2026-01-23	3	1st	29 30 31 35 36
2026-01-20	3	4th	17 22 25 29 38
2026-01-17	2	5th	2 5 12 28 29
2026-01-15	30	4th	16 23 24 29 33
2025-12-16	12	4th	3 14 15 29 38
2025-12-04	5	4th	5 17 28 29 33
2025-11-29	17	3rd	8 24 29 35 38
2025-11-12	9	4th	11 25 27 29 38
2025-11-03	6	5th	9 15 16 19 29
2025-10-28	16	4th	10 18 22 29 36
2025-10-12	2	5th	3 5 10 15 29
2025-10-10	1	3rd	12 17 29 33 38
2025-10-09	9	4th	5 12 25 29 37
2025-09-30	12	3rd	12 18 29 30 38
2025-09-18	9	4th	18 23 25 29 31
2025-09-09	12	3rd	4 5 29 30 37
2025-08-28	26	5th	10 13 20 22 29
2025-08-02	2	5th	1 8 17 27 29
2025-07-31	4	3rd	10 11 29 34 37
2025-07-27	8	5th	9 14 17 27 29
2025-07-19	10	5th	4 11 12 17 29
2025-07-09	4	5th	8 20 24 26 29
2025-07-05	5	4th	5 13 17 29 38
2025-06-30	6	4th	2 15 18 29 31
2025-06-24	3	5th	2 7 15 27 29
2025-06-21	6	5th	6 9 10 16 29
2025-06-15	1	5th	7 9 18 27 29
2025-06-14	6	4th	1 6 25 29 38
2025-06-08	4	4th	4 24 25 29 33
2025-06-04	10	2nd	15 29 30 36 37
2025-05-25	1	2nd	6 29 32 36 38
2025-05-24	17	3rd	14 21 29 30 32
2025-05-07	9	3rd	1 21 29 30 38
2025-04-28	2	5th	6 7 22 27 29
2025-04-26	—	4th	5 18 25 29 37