Number 13

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

11times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.02σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 19% for any number

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

20longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long

13 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 13, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 16 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 13 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 smallest1 · chance 3.2
2nd smallest7 · chance 4.7
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.5
4th smallest1 · chance 0.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 22 29 6 9 11

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 22 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 13 is picked about 0.92× as often as an indifferent choice — 31st most popular of 58. 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 number 13, in Western markets ×0.75

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 13 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-15	2	2nd	2 13 19 20 34 52
2026-08-08	4	3rd	7 10 13 18 24 42
2026-07-25	5	2nd	9 13 26 28 29 43
2026-07-08	14	2nd	11 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: 13 is drawn with probability 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.