Number 7

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 138 draws, 5 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.54σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 31% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

17longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 138 draws against 14.1 expected, +0.54σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 138 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 12 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 7 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 smallest10 · chance 9.2
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.7
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 10 12 26 36 40

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
The number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	14	1st	7 12 13 23 46
2026-09-14	1	1st	7 14 24 26 33
2026-09-13	17	2nd	1 7 9 24 41
2026-08-27	11	1st	7 18

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