Number 28

In Western Max under the 7/50 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 7 from 1–50.

15times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.27σ

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

10.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

37longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws against 20.3 expected, −1.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.2 draws · longest completed wait 37 · 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 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 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.8
3rd smallest4 · chance 2.8
4th smallest4 · chance 4.8
5th smallest2 · chance 4.3
6th smallest3 · chance 1.9
7th smallest1 · chance 0.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 38 20 26 32 11

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 50. 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
2026-10-06	18	4th	1 16 24 28 30 39 41
2026-08-04	13	3rd	12 16 28 29 31 32 40
2026-06-19	16	4th	13 16 22 28 38 40

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.