Number 30

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

7times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.64σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 78% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

20longest completed wait · 47% chance of one at least that long

30 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, −1.64σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 30, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 109 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 3 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 30 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 0.3
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.4
4th smallest6 · chance 4.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 2 29 1 4 7

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 30 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 30 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	9	4th	14 23 29 30
2026-08-27	5	4th	2 10 17 30
2026-08-10	11	4th	7 19 21 30
2026-07-02	20	4th	1 17 28 30
2026-04-23	15

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