Number 27

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 4 from 1–35.

13times drawn · chance expected 12 +0.16σ

40draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.9% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

17longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 40 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 109 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 40 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 27 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 smallest0 · chance 1.6
3rd smallest7 · chance 5.6
4th smallest6 · chance 5.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 19 16 20 32 5

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 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 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-05-21	1	3rd	6 20 27 32
2026-05-18	4	3rd	14 19 27 35
2026-05-04	9	3rd	14 22 27 29
2026-04-02	1	4th	1 16 17 27
2026-03-30	13

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: 27 is drawn with probability 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.