Number 38

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

192times drawn · chance expected 188 +0.31σ

26draws waiting · a wait this long: 3% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

37longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 192 times in 1,429 draws against 188.0 expected, +0.31σ. Each draw is independent: after 26 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 192 times in 1,429 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 26 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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest192 · chance 192.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 20.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 6 4 23 31 18

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, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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 above 31 ×0.86

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-15	11	5th	5 15 24 32 38
2026-09-04	24	5th	6 7 18 21 38
2026-08-11	37	5th	3 8 13 23 38
2026-07-05	4	5th	20

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

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