Number 29

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

25draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

43longest completed wait · 15% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 25 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 43 · waiting 25 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 29 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 0.4
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.6
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.9
4th smallest8 · chance 5.4
5th smallest1 · chance 1.7

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.

16 5 42 43 49 1

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 29 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 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-16	12	4th	3 9 23 29 42
2026-06-04	1	3rd	5 25 29 30 45
2026-06-01	7	4th	5 12 27 29 43
2026-05-07	4	5th	4 13 14 24

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