Number 1

In Lotto Strike under the 4/45 · since Oct 2019 rules — 1,215 draws, 4 from 1–45.

110times drawn · chance expected 108 +0.20σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

44longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 110 times in 1,215 draws against 108.0 expected, +0.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 110 times in 1,215 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 44 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 1 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 smallest110 · chance 110.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 6 14 20 31 35

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 45. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-12	10	1st	1 10 12 14
2026-09-25	14	1st	1 2 40 45
2026-08-31	5	1st	1 2 29 31
2026-08-22	26	1st	1 2 9 11
2026-07-08	5	1st	1

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: 1 is drawn with probability 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-04-18	1	1st	1 36 37 44
2025-04-16	10	1st	1 5 6 20
2025-03-29	3	1st	1 3 17 36
2025-03-24	19	1st	1 2 16 31
2025-02-19	3	1st	1 17 31 39
2025-02-14	12	1st	1 4 16 38
2025-01-24	10	1st	1 9 20 37
2025-01-06	17	1st	1 11 28 39
2024-12-07	9	1st	1 11 13 16
2024-11-22	6	1st	1 10 20 26
2024-11-11	8	1st	1 16 22 38
2024-10-28	1	1st	1 29 38 41
2024-10-26	15	1st	1 35 42 43
2024-09-30	2	1st	1 20 25 27
2024-09-27	30	1st	1 24 35 36
2024-08-05	4	1st	1 6 19 28
2024-07-29	26	1st	1 15 19 25
2024-06-14	8	1st	1 3 9 20
2024-05-31	12	1st	1 11 14 27
2024-05-06	4	1st	1 2 21 40
2024-04-27	4	1st	1 7 20 26
2024-04-17	11	1st	1 31 42 44
2024-03-23	10	1st	1 12 17 32
2024-02-28	29	1st	1 29 30 35
2023-12-23	8	1st	1 20 24 37
2023-12-04	8	1st	1 13 29 34
2023-11-15	2	1st	1 5 26 36
2023-11-11	16	1st	1 2 28 30
2023-10-04	26	1st	1 7 13 15
2023-08-05	6	1st	1 18 24 43
2023-07-22	16	1st	1 5 14 32
2023-06-14	4	1st	1 23 30 38
2023-06-05	1	1st	1 23 35 37
2023-06-03	33	1st	1 26 37 41
2023-03-18	19	1st	1 6 21 44
2023-02-01	34	1st	1 8 31 44
2022-11-14	32	1st	1 4 22 43
2022-08-31	6	1st	1 24 42 44
2022-08-17	2	1st	1 14 24 27
2022-08-13	1	1st	1 15 29 35
2022-08-10	10	1st	1 13 37 45
2022-07-18	12	1st	1 6 7 37
2022-06-20	1	1st	1 4 13 20
2022-06-18	10	1st	1 11 27 37
2022-05-25	13	1st	1 16 28 32
2022-04-25	7	1st	1 16 19 23
2022-04-09	2	1st	1 19 31 40
2022-04-04	1	1st	1 14 20 32
2022-04-02	18	1st	1 6 21 27
2022-02-19	4	1st	1 5 18 34
2022-02-09	7	1st	1 17 26 41
2022-01-24	1	1st	1 22 34 38
2022-01-22	5	1st	1 12 14 39
2022-01-10	10	1st	1 8 27 35
2021-12-18	44	1st	1 29 36 44
2021-09-06	26	1st	1 30 31 32
2021-07-07	10	1st	1 5 12 26
2021-06-14	4	1st	1 11 36 40
2021-06-05	16	1st	1 24 33 44
2021-04-28	4	1st	1 11 24 38
2021-04-19	7	1st	1 5 29 44
2021-04-03	21	1st	1 31 39 41
2021-02-13	30	1st	1 4 22 43
2020-12-05	12	1st	1 11 32 41
2020-11-07	18	1st	1 3 15 35
2020-09-26	1	1st	1 7 28 36
2020-09-23	1	1st	1 5 6 31
2020-09-21	1	1st	1 18 22 35
2020-09-19	8	1st	1 23 26 41
2020-08-31	10	1st	1 2 7 38
2020-08-08	2	1st	1 11 17 18
2020-08-03	5	1st	1 17 24 40
2020-07-22	3	1st	1 7 8 40
2020-07-15	3	1st	1 5 14 35
2020-07-08	1	1st	1 3 9 24
2020-07-06	19	1st	1 15 41 42
2020-05-23	17	1st	1 21 30 45
2020-04-13	6	1st	1 2 41 45
2020-03-30	2	1st	1 3 14 19
2020-03-25	21	1st	1 6 18 40
2020-02-05	2	1st	1 25 31 45
2020-02-01	15	1st	1 17 24 33
2019-12-28	2	1st	1 13 19 39
2019-12-23	7	1st	1 16 20 39
2019-12-07	12	1st	1 13 16 30
2019-11-09	—	1st	1 25 28 36