Number 5

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

114times drawn · chance expected 108 +0.60σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 30% for any number

10.6average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

54longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 114 times in 1,215 draws against 108.0 expected, +0.60σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 114 times in 1,215 draws · average wait 10.6 draws · longest completed wait 54 · waiting 14 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 5 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 smallest88 · chance 85.0
2nd smallest25 · chance 26.9
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 26 45 14 13 10

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, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-18	9	1st	5 20 21 40
2026-09-02	12	1st	5 17 18 22
2026-08-12	13	1st	5 18 25 33
2026-07-20	1	1st	5 13 26 37
2026-07-18	21	1st	5

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

2025-05-31	4	1st	5 23 27 45
2025-05-24	2	1st	5 13 36 37
2025-05-21	17	1st	5 17 23 29
2025-04-21	3	1st	5 12 18 30
2025-04-16	8	2nd	1 5 6 20
2025-04-02	11	1st	5 9 29 37
2025-03-14	11	1st	5 8 22 37
2025-02-22	3	2nd	2 5 26 39
2025-02-17	15	1st	5 21 26 35
2025-01-22	17	1st	5 9 17 43
2024-12-23	12	1st	5 15 26 28
2024-12-02	9	1st	5 12 15 34
2024-11-16	21	1st	5 6 8 44
2024-10-11	26	1st	5 12 13 14
2024-08-26	1	1st	5 26 38 45
2024-08-24	2	1st	5 8 42 43
2024-08-21	24	2nd	3 5 15 36
2024-07-10	9	1st	5 7 21 44
2024-06-24	10	1st	5 17 29 41
2024-06-07	2	1st	5 10 22 34
2024-06-03	4	1st	5 24 26 44
2024-05-27	19	1st	5 36 39 41
2024-04-15	2	1st	5 14 21 45
2024-04-10	2	1st	5 23 29 34
2024-04-06	2	1st	5 6 14 37
2024-04-01	9	2nd	4 5 30 31
2024-03-11	33	2nd	3 5 13 19
2023-12-25	17	1st	5 12 20 25
2023-11-15	5	2nd	1 5 26 36
2023-11-04	2	1st	5 14 15 34
2023-10-30	15	1st	5 15 17 45
2023-09-25	12	2nd	3 5 9 34
2023-08-28	3	1st	5 9 12 29
2023-08-21	4	2nd	3 5 16 41
2023-08-12	2	1st	5 10 30 32
2023-08-07	7	1st	5 9 12 23
2023-07-22	2	2nd	1 5 14 32
2023-07-17	36	1st	5 7 13 32
2023-04-24	29	1st	5 16 22 36
2023-02-15	12	1st	5 17 30 35
2023-01-18	9	1st	5 10 18 45
2022-12-28	31	1st	5 39 41 45
2022-10-17	8	1st	5 12 13 24
2022-09-28	7	1st	5 29 32 42
2022-09-12	42	1st	5 7 30 39
2022-06-06	2	2nd	2 5 20 45
2022-06-01	5	1st	5 8 15 31
2022-05-21	39	1st	5 23 38 41
2022-02-19	5	2nd	1 5 18 34
2022-02-07	2	1st	5 19 20 25
2022-02-02	3	1st	5 27 33 45
2022-01-26	9	1st	5 9 14 39
2022-01-05	17	2nd	3 5 36 40
2021-11-27	1	1st	5 27 34 45
2021-11-24	4	2nd	4 5 6 39
2021-11-15	5	1st	5 13 21 29
2021-11-03	18	1st	5 10 23 28
2021-09-22	1	1st	5 29 41 44
2021-09-20	1	1st	5 11 38 44
2021-09-18	4	1st	5 6 15 36
2021-09-08	18	1st	5 6 26 38
2021-07-28	9	1st	5 8 26 44
2021-07-07	11	2nd	1 5 12 26
2021-06-12	8	1st	5 13 28 45
2021-05-24	4	2nd	2 5 7 14
2021-05-15	6	1st	5 16 19 41
2021-05-01	5	1st	5 14 22 31
2021-04-19	1	2nd	1 5 29 44
2021-04-17	2	1st	5 13 17 33
2021-04-12	21	1st	5 11 32 42
2021-02-22	1	1st	5 6 16 45
2021-02-20	2	2nd	3 5 9 41
2021-02-15	14	1st	5 25 28 42
2021-01-13	5	1st	5 14 25 38
2021-01-02	8	1st	5 7 16 44
2020-12-14	27	1st	5 23 40 44
2020-10-12	3	2nd	2 5 9 33
2020-10-05	5	1st	5 7 37 39
2020-09-23	18	2nd	1 5 6 31
2020-08-12	7	1st	5 30 37 40
2020-07-27	5	1st	5 34 37 45
2020-07-15	54	2nd	1 5 14 35
2020-03-11	18	2nd	2 5 18 45
2020-01-29	10	1st	5 11 24 26
2020-01-06	3	1st	5 16 35 43
2019-12-30	5	1st	5 18 32 36
2019-12-18	9	1st	5 10 13 36
2019-11-27	7	1st	5 17 40 45
2019-11-11	3	1st	5 17 18 21
2019-11-04	—	1st	5 6 10 14