Number 5

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

9times drawn · chance expected 10 −0.17σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

11.9average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

28longest completed wait · 49% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, −0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws · average wait 11.9 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 1 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 5 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 smallest7 · chance 6.7
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 11 30 35 39 2

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 24 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 5 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 45. 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	18	1st	5 10 16 23
2026-05-30	2	1st	5 14 36 40
2026-05-16	17	1st	5 28 32 37
2026-01-17	9	1st	5 7 11 39

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: 5 is drawn with probability 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.