Number 28

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.06σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

27longest completed wait · 61% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 5 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 28 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 smallest1 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest1 · chance 3.0
3rd smallest11 · chance 6.1
4th smallest2 · chance 5.1
5th smallest1 · chance 1.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 37 45 4 22 34

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 28 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-24	2	3rd	6 25 28 36 37
2026-09-17	5	4th	6 7 26 28 45
2026-08-31	7	3rd	6 23 28 34 37
2026-08-06	23	1st	28 32 37 42

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: 28 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.