Number 31

In Daily Tennessee Jackpot under the 5/38 · since Nov 2022 rules — 1,429 draws, 5 from 1–38.

206times drawn · chance expected 188 +1.41σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

40longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 206 times in 1,429 draws against 188.0 expected, +1.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 206 times in 1,429 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 2 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 0.1
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.3
3rd smallest29 · chance 28.5
4th smallest81 · chance 88.6
5th smallest92 · chance 85.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 22.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 8 22 36 26 16

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, 31 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 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	5	5th	10 11 12 15 31
2026-10-04	3	5th	1 9 21 29 31
2026-10-01	1	4th	6 7 28 31 34
2026-09-30	5	5th	10

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-25	2	5th	5 18 21 22 31
2026-05-23	19	4th	9 10 29 31 38
2026-05-04	4	4th	6 18 23 31 35
2026-04-30	12	3rd	13 20 31 34 38
2026-04-18	4	5th	1 9 15 17 31
2026-04-14	4	3rd	13 20 31 32 36
2026-04-10	1	5th	8 17 27 29 31
2026-04-09	1	4th	23 24 29 31 36
2026-04-08	15	4th	21 23 25 31 33
2026-03-24	1	3rd	2 21 31 32 33
2026-03-23	2	4th	12 19 28 31 34
2026-03-21	6	4th	9 25 27 31 37
2026-03-15	10	4th	1 12 21 31 36
2026-03-05	32	5th	1 3 27 28 31
2026-02-01	5	5th	5 17 18 21 31
2026-01-27	18	4th	3 17 21 31 33
2026-01-09	1	5th	11 14 21 22 31
2026-01-08	6	5th	2 6 17 22 31
2026-01-02	8	5th	2 5 22 29 31
2025-12-25	8	5th	13 14 17 22 31
2025-12-17	1	4th	3 5 6 31 32
2025-12-16	3	3rd	22 30 31 36 38
2025-12-13	1	5th	3 5 20 30 31
2025-12-12	6	3rd	1 6 31 36 38
2025-12-06	7	4th	8 22 29 31 35
2025-11-29	1	4th	17 18 26 31 33
2025-11-28	10	3rd	5 28 31 36 38
2025-11-18	2	5th	11 12 14 21 31
2025-11-16	4	5th	4 6 8 15 31
2025-11-12	12	4th	5 6 24 31 32
2025-10-31	5	3rd	5 8 31 32 36
2025-10-26	4	5th	6 22 25 29 31
2025-10-22	13	4th	23 25 26 31 33
2025-10-09	40	5th	3 9 12 16 31
2025-08-30	6	5th	1 3 9 29 31
2025-08-24	6	4th	3 8 27 31 38
2025-08-18	1	5th	1 16 20 25 31
2025-08-17	1	4th	19 28 29 31 36
2025-08-16	5	5th	11 22 23 27 31
2025-08-11	1	4th	11 16 27 31 36
2025-08-10	3	4th	1 7 27 31 35
2025-08-07	2	5th	9 18 20 29 31
2025-08-05	6	4th	6 7 16 31 38
2025-07-30	14	5th	9 10 11 23 31
2025-07-16	16	5th	3 5 17 23 31
2025-06-30	18	3rd	4 15 31 35 38
2025-06-12	7	3rd	19 26 31 34 37
2025-06-05	7	5th	18 20 22 26 31
2025-05-29	2	2nd	7 31 32 33 37
2025-05-27	8	3rd	19 25 31 34 35
2025-05-19	6	4th	2 19 22 31 38
2025-05-13	1	5th	1 16 21 25 31
2025-05-12	1	4th	2 5 11 31 37
2025-05-11	2	5th	1 2 21 22 31
2025-05-09	1	5th	2 3 5 25 31
2025-05-08	20	5th	2 14 23 25 31
2025-04-18	1	3rd	6 22 31 35 38
2025-04-17	4	5th	2 4 11 22 31
2025-04-13	18	5th	2 13 15 28 31
2025-03-26	2	5th	4 12 15 24 31
2025-03-24	14	5th	4 8 16 29 31
2025-03-10	2	5th	6 16 24 26 31
2025-03-08	3	3rd	26 27 31 36 38
2025-03-05	6	5th	5 9 15 20 31
2025-02-27	23	5th	2 10 17 30 31
2025-02-04	1	4th	7 25 28 31 37
2025-02-03	4	4th	12 14 22 31 36
2025-01-30	16	4th	13 20 27 31 36
2025-01-14	6	5th	8 18 25 30 31
2025-01-08	6	4th	16 18 27 31 36
2025-01-02	11	5th	3 8 29 30 31
2024-12-22	3	5th	12 17 21 22 31
2024-12-19	3	4th	2 7 23 31 33
2024-12-16	3	3rd	12 16 31 35 37
2024-12-13	7	5th	8 10 14 15 31
2024-12-06	9	4th	3 21 27 31 36
2024-11-27	1	5th	6 10 18 22 31
2024-11-26	16	4th	16 22 25 31 33
2024-11-10	2	3rd	21 24 31 35 37
2024-11-08	3	5th	8 13 17 20 31
2024-11-05	1	4th	5 8 21 31 34
2024-11-04	2	5th	4 14 15 26 31
2024-11-02	20	5th	11 22 26 28 31
2024-10-13	4	4th	10 17 21 31 35
2024-10-09	5	4th	10 15 26 31 36
2024-10-04	10	5th	3 8 12 26 31
2024-09-24	35	3rd	8 25 31 33 38
2024-08-20	1	4th	5 6 23 31 34
2024-08-19	11	4th	10 16 30 31 33
2024-08-08	16	4th	5 19 24 31 34
2024-07-23	10	5th	1 6 11 29 31
2024-07-13	9	4th	7 14 23 31 35
2024-07-04	14	4th	1 12 13 31 37
2024-06-20	7	5th	5 8 9 26 31
2024-06-13	6	5th	14 16 25 26 31
2024-06-07	3	4th	7 19 23 31 37
2024-06-04	5	5th	1 7 9 19 31
2024-05-30	4	3rd	12 18 31 32 38
2024-05-26	8	3rd	6 15 31 34 35
2024-05-18	9	5th	11 21 22 24 31
2024-05-09	6	5th	7 8 20 26 31
2024-05-03	2	5th	16 24 28 29 31
2024-05-01	7	4th	4 12 15 31 35
2024-04-24	1	5th	2 14 19 23 31
2024-04-23	10	3rd	20 30 31 32 38
2024-04-13	12	5th	1 4 7 13 31
2024-04-01	11	5th	4 6 11 13 31
2024-03-21	7	4th	2 5 16 31 38
2024-03-14	3	5th	6 8 9 11 31
2024-03-11	13	4th	24 27 28 31 36
2024-02-27	5	2nd	13 31 32 35 36
2024-02-22	22	4th	5 12 16 31 32
2024-01-31	2	4th	10 24 30 31 36
2024-01-29	1	5th	21 25 27 30 31
2024-01-28	2	3rd	7 18 31 33 36
2024-01-26	2	4th	10 13 29 31 36
2024-01-24	6	4th	10 22 25 31 36
2024-01-18	9	4th	11 13 30 31 32
2024-01-09	20	4th	2 23 25 31 33
2023-12-20	6	3rd	13 25 31 32 37
2023-12-14	1	5th	11 17 20 24 31
2023-12-13	8	4th	2 3 7 31 38
2023-12-05	16	4th	8 14 15 31 33
2023-11-19	17	5th	1 6 19 26 31
2023-11-02	21	4th	12 25 30 31 34
2023-10-12	7	5th	4 7 8 24 31
2023-10-05	1	5th	2 3 7 14 31
2023-10-04	5	4th	7 13 25 31 37
2023-09-29	7	4th	4 18 28 31 34
2023-09-22	1	4th	4 6 8 31 36
2023-09-21	7	4th	20 22 28 31 38
2023-09-14	8	3rd	7 29 31 35 36
2023-09-06	10	5th	6 8 15 28 31
2023-08-27	7	3rd	15 30 31 36 38
2023-08-20	6	5th	8 10 21 27 31
2023-08-14	6	4th	1 20 21 31 36
2023-08-08	4	4th	6 7 8 31 37
2023-08-04	20	4th	6 8 26 31 32
2023-07-15	2	3rd	12 27 31 34 38
2023-07-13	8	5th	2 3 5 8 31
2023-07-05	12	4th	6 18 30 31 33
2023-06-23	3	4th	16 20 23 31 36
2023-06-20	6	5th	5 15 22 25 31
2023-06-14	3	4th	16 18 22 31 37
2023-06-11	1	4th	4 22 24 31 38
2023-06-10	5	5th	1 5 8 16 31
2023-06-05	6	5th	8 20 25 28 31
2023-05-30	2	3rd	16 26 31 36 38
2023-05-28	19	2nd	22 31 33 35 38
2023-05-09	12	5th	8 10 17 19 31
2023-04-27	2	5th	1 9 13 28 31
2023-04-25	3	4th	9 15 20 31 33
2023-04-22	1	4th	4 12 26 31 38
2023-04-21	11	4th	12 19 27 31 34
2023-04-10	6	3rd	18 22 31 34 36
2023-04-04	2	5th	6 22 23 26 31
2023-04-02	9	4th	6 14 29 31 32
2023-03-24	6	5th	10 17 27 28 31
2023-03-18	3	4th	7 14 26 31 36
2023-03-15	1	4th	2 26 29 31 35
2023-03-14	3	5th	5 11 16 22 31
2023-03-11	1	5th	1 3 18 28 31
2023-03-10	1	5th	3 13 28 29 31
2023-03-09	1	4th	9 16 28 31 36
2023-03-08	7	5th	5 15 18 26 31
2023-03-01	10	3rd	2 15 31 32 36
2023-02-19	7	4th	11 15 25 31 38
2023-02-12	6	5th	3 7 8 15 31
2023-02-06	6	4th	3 5 16 31 35
2023-01-31	1	3rd	20 21 31 33 34
2023-01-30	7	4th	4 5 27 31 34
2023-01-23	2	2nd	19 31 32 33 37
2023-01-21	4	5th	5 7 21 26 31
2023-01-17	2	4th	1 14 24 31 34
2023-01-15	1	5th	4 13 18 22 31
2023-01-14	7	5th	1 2 14 28 31
2023-01-07	13	4th	9 19 20 31 34
2022-12-25	5	3rd	5 27 31 33 38
2022-12-20	9	4th	1 17 26 31 37
2022-12-11	6	5th	4 8 10 20 31
2022-12-05	22	4th	11 14 30 31 37
2022-11-13	—	4th	4 11 18 31 38