Number 5

In El Gordo de la Primitiva under the 5/54 + 1/9 · since Jan 2010 rules — 866 draws, 5 from 1–54.

73times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.84σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

11.8average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

40longest completed wait · 81% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 73 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, −0.84σ. 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 73 times in 866 draws · average wait 11.8 draws · longest completed wait 40 · 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 smallest57 · chance 52.8
2nd smallest13 · chance 18.4
3rd smallest3 · chance 1.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

34 11 27 37 7 16

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 still unmet 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 54. 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
2026-10-11	4	1st	5 27 43 49 52
2026-09-13	33	1st	5 25 36 39 54
2026-01-25	1	1st	5 11 18 34 42
2026-01-18	9	1st	5 33

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 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2022-06-19	3	1st	5 17 19 23 27
2022-05-29	15	1st	5 13 27 37 41
2022-02-13	13	1st	5 22 34 41 52
2021-11-14	21	1st	5 28 37 50 53
2021-06-20	10	2nd	4 5 30 34 43
2021-04-11	2	1st	5 7 15 16 18
2021-03-28	4	2nd	2 5 7 9 16
2021-02-28	19	1st	5 6 26 27 35
2020-10-18	7	1st	5 9 32 38 39
2020-08-30	8	1st	5 9 35 37 46
2020-07-05	19	1st	5 7 11 23 33
2019-12-15	33	1st	5 13 15 27 38
2019-04-28	3	3rd	2 4 5 24 43
2019-04-07	5	1st	5 9 19 21 27
2019-03-03	27	2nd	1 5 7 27 44
2018-08-26	3	1st	5 6 14 20 33
2018-08-05	8	1st	5 12 16 23 53
2018-06-10	1	1st	5 8 29 35 36
2018-06-03	11	1st	5 28 33 38 44
2018-03-18	7	3rd	3 4 5 13 20
2018-01-28	2	2nd	3 5 11 41 45
2018-01-14	1	2nd	3 5 11 26 33
2018-01-07	29	1st	5 25 29 37 52
2017-06-18	8	1st	5 13 31 42 52
2017-04-23	20	2nd	4 5 7 10 42
2016-12-04	5	1st	5 10 27 43 52
2016-10-30	1	2nd	4 5 9 53 54
2016-10-23	33	1st	5 7 19 22 29
2016-03-06	16	1st	5 12 30 31 48
2015-11-15	22	1st	5 16 18 23 33
2015-06-14	16	1st	5 14 21 26 41
2015-02-22	8	1st	5 7 17 29 34
2014-12-28	2	1st	5 6 15 34 53
2014-12-14	9	1st	5 9 31 35 48
2014-10-12	12	1st	5 15 17 38 47
2014-07-20	3	2nd	3 5 8 14 45
2014-06-29	1	1st	5 8 12 22 46
2014-06-22	40	1st	5 22 28 41 51
2013-09-15	18	2nd	3 5 16 18 29
2013-05-12	5	1st	5 12 14 23 41
2013-04-07	6	1st	5 14 26 29 30
2013-02-24	5	1st	5 7 21 27 33
2013-01-20	35	1st	5 16 32 39 53
2012-05-20	39	1st	5 30 31 36 50
2011-08-21	16	1st	5 6 21 26 37
2011-05-01	31	1st	5 29 35 43 47
2010-09-26	11	2nd	4 5 11 15 50
2010-07-11	12	1st	5 12 32 34 38
2010-04-18	—	1st	5 10 11 28 37