Number 7

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

99times drawn · chance expected 108 −0.91σ

27draws waiting · a wait this long: 9% for any number

12.0average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

78longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 99 times in 1,215 draws against 108.0 expected, −0.91σ. Each draw is independent: after 27 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 99 times in 1,215 draws · average wait 12.0 draws · longest completed wait 78 · waiting 27 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 7 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 smallest64 · chance 63.1
2nd smallest30 · chance 31.5
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 13 17 20 8 14

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-26	19	1st	7 10 13 22
2026-07-24	1	1st	7 22 43 45
2026-07-22	2	1st	7 13 21 38
2026-07-18	63	2nd	5 7 24 30
2026-03-30	4	1st	7

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

2025-01-18	17	1st	7 15 19 45
2024-12-20	3	1st	7 15 20 45
2024-12-14	10	2nd	6 7 30 35
2024-11-27	16	1st	7 17 19 29
2024-10-30	12	2nd	6 7 11 35
2024-10-09	9	1st	7 13 39 43
2024-09-23	6	1st	7 23 33 43
2024-09-13	3	2nd	6 7 24 27
2024-09-07	6	1st	7 15 16 38
2024-08-28	28	1st	7 8 12 43
2024-07-10	5	2nd	5 7 21 44
2024-07-01	32	1st	7 13 15 29
2024-05-01	2	1st	7 10 34 42
2024-04-27	44	2nd	1 7 20 26
2024-01-15	11	2nd	6 7 21 37
2023-12-20	14	1st	7 14 20 34
2023-11-18	12	1st	7 8 26 31
2023-10-21	3	2nd	2 7 29 30
2023-10-14	2	1st	7 10 23 38
2023-10-09	2	1st	7 16 24 34
2023-10-04	18	2nd	1 7 13 15
2023-08-23	16	1st	7 9 13 14
2023-07-17	3	2nd	5 7 13 32
2023-07-10	2	1st	7 19 32 44
2023-07-05	1	1st	7 11 13 25
2023-07-03	1	1st	7 23 29 41
2023-07-01	5	2nd	6 7 26 38
2023-06-19	10	1st	7 8 12 40
2023-05-27	13	1st	7 8 28 37
2023-04-26	16	1st	7 17 44 45
2023-03-20	16	1st	7 14 16 41
2023-02-11	7	2nd	4 7 20 21
2023-01-25	13	1st	7 8 21 27
2022-12-26	12	1st	7 21 35 42
2022-11-28	9	1st	7 20 37 38
2022-11-07	4	1st	7 28 36 41
2022-10-29	3	2nd	6 7 9 42
2022-10-22	12	1st	7 17 21 41
2022-09-24	3	1st	7 10 14 41
2022-09-17	2	2nd	4 7 23 25
2022-09-12	9	2nd	5 7 30 39
2022-08-22	14	1st	7 8 17 41
2022-07-20	1	2nd	2 7 12 19
2022-07-18	19	3rd	1 6 7 37
2022-06-04	20	1st	7 13 23 25
2022-04-18	78	3rd	3 6 7 25
2021-10-18	30	1st	7 19 34 39
2021-08-09	3	1st	7 20 41 42
2021-08-02	12	1st	7 11 31 40
2021-07-05	1	1st	7 22 34 44
2021-07-03	2	2nd	2 7 33 37
2021-06-28	13	1st	7 15 27 33
2021-05-29	2	2nd	2 7 28 42
2021-05-24	1	3rd	2 5 7 14
2021-05-22	7	1st	7 9 23 27
2021-05-05	11	2nd	2 7 17 23
2021-04-10	16	1st	7 20 26 42
2021-03-03	26	1st	7 24 40 42
2021-01-02	23	2nd	5 7 16 44
2020-11-09	14	2nd	4 7 20 45
2020-10-07	1	1st	7 9 13 17
2020-10-05	4	2nd	5 7 37 39
2020-09-26	7	2nd	1 7 28 36
2020-09-09	3	2nd	4 7 37 43
2020-09-02	1	2nd	2 7 22 34
2020-08-31	17	3rd	1 2 7 38
2020-07-22	1	2nd	1 7 8 40
2020-07-20	35	2nd	2 7 14 18
2020-04-29	9	2nd	4 7 17 20
2020-04-08	5	1st	7 8 29 41
2020-03-28	8	1st	7 10 37 43
2020-03-09	1	1st	7 10 19 22
2020-03-07	7	1st	7 33 34 40
2020-02-19	38	1st	7 21 36 43
2019-11-23	—	1st	7 14 37 45