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29

Number 29

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

5/49 · since May 20265/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2024 – May 2026
14times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.08σ
9draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number
9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
25longest completed wait · 64% chance of one at least that long
29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.08σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

29

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 140 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 9 draws now

10 draws: 2026-05-29 to 2026-06-088 draws: 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-1625 draws: 2026-06-16 to 2026-07-114 draws: 2026-07-11 to 2026-07-157 draws: 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-228 draws: 2026-07-22 to 2026-07-3110 draws: 2026-07-31 to 2026-08-1020 draws: 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-304 draws: 2026-08-30 to 2026-09-039 draws: 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-129 draws: 2026-09-12 to 2026-09-218 draws: 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-294 draws: 2026-09-29 to 2026-10-03Still waiting — at least 9 draws since 2026-10-032026-05-292026-06-082026-06-162026-07-112026-07-152026-07-222026-07-312026-08-102026-08-302026-09-032026-09-122026-09-212026-09-292026-10-032026-05-252026-10-12

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 0 times2 draws: 0 times3 draws: 0 times4 draws: 3 times5 draws: 0 times6 draws: 0 times7 draws: 1 time8 draws: 3 times9 draws: 2 times10 draws: 2 times11 draws: 0 times12 draws: 0 times13 draws: 0 times14 draws: 0 times15 draws: 0 times16 draws: 0 times17 draws: 0 times18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 0 times20 draws: 1 time21 draws: 0 times22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 times25 draws: 1 time26 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 29 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 smallest2 · chance 2.3
  • 3rd smallest7 · chance 5.2
  • 4th smallest3 · chance 4.7
  • 5th smallest2 · chance 1.5

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.

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Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 29 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 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-10-0345th317182729
2026-09-2983rd1421294349
2026-09-2192nd829343746
2026-09-1294th59242947
2026-09-0343rd910294243
2026-08-30205th410172129
2026-08-10103rd920293645
2026-07-3183rd523293648
2026-07-2273rd2325293031
2026-07-1543rd425294346
2026-07-11253rd824293745
2026-06-1684th924272938
2026-06-08104th1417262934
2026-05-29—2nd2129323340
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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: 29 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.