Number 3

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

10times drawn · chance expected 12 −0.74σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 69% for any number

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

18longest completed wait · 71% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, −0.74σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 109 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 4 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 3 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest4 · chance 8.3
2nd smallest6 · chance 1.7
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 26 33 2 11 12

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-24	3	2nd	1 3 22 33
2026-09-14	4	1st	3 6 12 26
2026-08-31	14	2nd	2 3 4 11
2026-07-13	18	2nd	1 3 8 26
2026-05-11	3	2nd

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