Number 54

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

83times drawn · chance expected 80 +0.33σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

64longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

54 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, +0.33σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 54, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 866 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 64 · waiting 4 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 54 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest83 · chance 83.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

40 2 31 34 19 21

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 54 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 54 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-13	14	5th	5 25 36 39 54
2026-06-07	6	5th	10 19 29 37 54
2026-04-26	2	5th	19 21 24 40 54
2026-04-12	19	5th	4 11

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: 54 is drawn with probability 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2022-05-01	4	5th	14 19 39 47 54
2022-04-03	25	5th	6 9 34 50 54
2021-10-10	14	5th	2 3 23 25 54
2021-07-04	23	5th	2 18 31 43 54
2021-01-24	5	5th	8 18 27 50 54
2020-12-20	12	5th	2 6 42 50 54
2020-09-27	1	5th	1 27 45 48 54
2020-09-20	1	5th	7 31 37 48 54
2020-09-13	13	5th	6 31 50 52 54
2020-06-14	1	5th	3 21 31 32 54
2020-06-07	1	5th	2 10 25 34 54
2020-05-31	8	5th	3 11 17 36 54
2020-01-26	1	5th	1 12 21 40 54
2020-01-19	8	5th	15 18 39 43 54
2019-11-24	9	5th	13 24 40 48 54
2019-09-22	1	5th	24 29 35 51 54
2019-09-15	7	5th	9 24 29 33 54
2019-07-28	11	5th	1 6 12 28 54
2019-05-12	64	5th	2 10 11 49 54
2018-02-18	12	5th	23 30 42 51 54
2017-11-26	4	5th	3 24 39 50 54
2017-10-29	3	5th	9 11 21 51 54
2017-10-08	18	5th	10 13 23 37 54
2017-06-04	13	5th	6 15 22 29 54
2017-03-05	11	5th	3 35 42 45 54
2016-12-18	7	5th	21 22 44 46 54
2016-10-30	48	5th	4 5 9 53 54
2015-11-29	11	5th	11 16 34 39 54
2015-09-13	1	5th	9 22 25 53 54
2015-09-06	4	5th	2 20 28 45 54
2015-08-09	1	5th	28 40 48 52 54
2015-08-02	9	5th	16 21 26 42 54
2015-05-31	18	5th	18 19 27 31 54
2015-01-25	3	5th	11 23 41 45 54
2015-01-04	30	5th	10 22 28 31 54
2014-06-08	1	5th	9 45 47 49 54
2014-06-01	3	5th	13 15 34 44 54
2014-05-11	15	5th	19 20 21 47 54
2014-01-26	8	5th	34 39 41 43 54
2013-12-01	3	5th	6 24 46 48 54
2013-11-10	6	5th	6 7 29 51 54
2013-09-29	15	5th	2 26 40 42 54
2013-06-16	25	5th	22 37 40 52 54
2012-12-23	9	5th	12 18 40 42 54
2012-10-21	2	5th	21 34 43 53 54
2012-10-07	19	5th	12 17 19 34 54
2012-05-27	10	5th	1 4 13 42 54
2012-03-18	6	5th	1 13 26 29 54
2012-02-05	34	5th	1 10 26 33 54
2011-06-12	7	5th	9 40 47 53 54
2011-04-24	1	5th	14 27 43 45 54
2011-04-17	2	5th	4 13 18 24 54
2011-04-03	3	5th	1 7 8 44 54
2011-03-13	11	5th	20 25 29 53 54
2010-12-26	5	5th	15 33 34 46 54
2010-11-21	11	5th	10 15 18 33 54
2010-09-05	12	5th	16 21 29 31 54
2010-06-13	20	5th	20 36 40 50 54
2010-01-24	—	5th	14 19 31 33 54