Star 5

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 160 draws, 1 from 1–7.

19times drawn · chance expected 23 −0.87σ

17draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

18longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 19 times in 160 draws against 22.9 expected, −0.87σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 19 times in 160 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 17 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest19 · chance 19.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

No shared draws yet.

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 6 numbers; chance expects about 6 such strangers 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 — 3rd most popular of 7. 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
2026-08-17	10	1st	5
2026-07-13	2	1st	5
2026-07-06	8	1st	5
2026-06-08	13	1st	5
2026-04-23	12	1st	5
2026-03-12	4	1st	5
2026-02-26	4	1st	5
2026-02-12	15	1st	5
2025-12-22	6	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 1/7 tonight whatever it did last week.