Number 25

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.44σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

36longest completed wait · 14% chance of one at least that long

25 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.44σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 25, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 3 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 25 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 0.4
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.4
3rd smallest3 · chance 5.2
4th smallest7 · chance 5.2
5th smallest2 · chance 2.4
6th smallest1 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 3 5 36 27 29

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 25 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 25 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	20	4th	2 3 11 25 29 48
2026-07-22	12	2nd	8 25 27 28 36 38
2026-06-10	5	3rd	11 14 25 32 37 41
2026-05-23	4	4th

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: 25 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.