Number 27

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.08σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number

10.2average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

25longest completed wait · 64% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.08σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 140 draws · average wait 10.2 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 4 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 27 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 smallest0 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.4
4th smallest5 · chance 4.1
5th smallest2 · chance 1.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 18 23 38 2 8

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 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 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	2	4th	9 15 23 27 39
2026-10-06	3	2nd	25 27 30 37 48
2026-10-03	6	4th	3 17 18 27 29
2026-09-27	7	3rd	8 23

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