In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.
9times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.48σ
16draws waiting · a wait this long: 20% for any number
11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
44longest completed wait · 8% chance of one at least that long
11 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 9 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −1.48σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
11
Number 11, draw by draw
Drawn 9 times in 140 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 44 · waiting 16 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 11 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 24 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 23 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 11 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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.
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: 11 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.