Number 5

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

7times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.00σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 24% for any number

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

10longest completed wait · 85% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.00σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 10 · waiting 11 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest5 · chance 4.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.4
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 30 3 12 15 21

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 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 — 6th 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
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
2026-09-01	10	1st	5 12 25 30 39 50 52
2026-07-28	1	2nd	3 5 15 21 27 38 49
2026-07-24	8	1st	5 7 8 22 30 36 37

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.