Number 28

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

10times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.17σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 34% for any number

13.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

34longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, −1.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 139 draws · average wait 13.8 draws · longest completed wait 34 · 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 28 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 0.3
2nd smallest3 · chance 1.8
3rd smallest5 · chance 3.8
4th smallest2 · chance 3.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.9

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.

31 34 13 47 5 16

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 21 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 28 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 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	8	2nd	5 28 34 37 43
2026-09-22	34	4th	2 13 24 28 36
2026-08-19	29	2nd	11 28 31 38 47
2026-07-20	2	4th	7 10

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