Number 5

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

15times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.27σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

23longest completed wait · 40% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws against 20.3 expected, −1.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 23 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest9 · chance 8.7
2nd smallest6 · chance 5.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

14 15 19 27 33 36

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 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
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
2026-10-09	6	2nd	1 5 9 14 33 44 45
2026-09-18	18	1st	5 18 23 27 40 43 46
2026-07-17	11	1st	5 15 17 31 36 42

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.