Number 25

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

9times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.81σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

13longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long

25 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.81σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 25, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 52 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 13 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 25 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 smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.4
4th smallest3 · chance 3.0
5th smallest2 · chance 1.9
6th smallest1 · chance 0.6
7th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 10 15 52 1 4

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 25 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 52. 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 25 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	2	4th	6 10 19 25 29 39 50
2026-10-02	9	5th	2 4 20 23 25 41 47
2026-09-01	2	3rd	5 12 25 30 39 50 52

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: 25 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.