Number 1

In EuroMillions under the 5/50 + 2/12 · since Sep 2016 rules — 1,048 draws, 5 from 1–50.

90times drawn · chance expected 105 −1.52σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number

11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

55longest completed wait · 26% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 90 times in 1,048 draws against 104.8 expected, −1.52σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 90 times in 1,048 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 55 · waiting 8 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 1 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 smallest90 · chance 90.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 7.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 19 42 48 7 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 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 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-11	21	1st	1 7 15 39 50
2026-06-30	22	1st	1 8 37 44 48
2026-04-14	16	1st	1 2 4 28 44
2026-02-17	2	1st	1 4 6

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: 1 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-03-21	26	1st	1 9 20 29 32
2022-12-20	23	1st	1 11 17 20 27
2022-09-30	50	1st	1 2 11 16 26
2022-04-08	1	1st	1 15 16 38 45
2022-04-05	5	1st	1 11 13 24 49
2022-03-18	1	1st	1 9 14 17 43
2022-03-15	12	1st	1 2 12 19 26
2022-02-01	13	1st	1 19 36 38 49
2021-12-17	6	1st	1 2 15 30 35
2021-11-26	14	1st	1 20 41 42 50
2021-10-08	2	1st	1 10 23 42 46
2021-10-01	6	1st	1 15 19 26 48
2021-09-10	22	1st	1 6 7 18 28
2021-06-25	9	1st	1 29 30 33 36
2021-05-25	7	1st	1 21 26 30 38
2021-04-30	15	1st	1 16 24 28 46
2021-03-09	11	1st	1 16 21 32 33
2021-01-29	15	1st	1 5 27 36 42
2020-12-08	7	1st	1 4 21 24 46
2020-11-13	29	1st	1 5 17 28 31
2020-08-04	10	1st	1 2 5 15 42
2020-06-30	1	1st	1 6 11 28 42
2020-06-26	18	1st	1 10 12 21 26
2020-04-24	17	1st	1 5 19 21 28
2020-02-25	8	1st	1 4 18 27 42
2020-01-28	9	1st	1 19 27 31 38
2019-12-27	3	1st	1 7 22 26 35
2019-12-17	3	1st	1 7 12 25 49
2019-12-06	7	1st	1 3 27 39 46
2019-11-12	17	1st	1 21 23 25 39
2019-09-13	15	1st	1 12 27 42 47
2019-07-23	7	1st	1 14 19 23 38
2019-06-28	4	1st	1 3 16 33 49
2019-06-14	2	1st	1 13 30 31 39
2019-06-07	2	1st	1 4 16 20 34
2019-05-31	6	1st	1 23 24 26 35
2019-05-10	7	1st	1 4 27 45 48
2019-04-16	1	1st	1 8 15 44 49
2019-04-12	2	1st	1 28 35 36 46
2019-04-05	5	1st	1 7 10 29 45
2019-03-19	8	1st	1 6 9 34 47
2019-02-19	7	1st	1 8 18 19 39
2019-01-25	4	1st	1 6 13 15 16
2019-01-11	3	1st	1 19 31 39 48
2019-01-01	4	1st	1 8 11 25 28
2018-12-18	16	1st	1 9 18 39 48
2018-10-23	1	1st	1 2 5 21 32
2018-10-19	10	1st	1 3 29 47 48
2018-09-14	9	1st	1 3 33 40 45
2018-08-14	9	1st	1 15 18 25 31
2018-07-13	3	1st	1 4 14 21 49
2018-07-03	12	1st	1 12 15 29 48
2018-05-22	13	1st	1 11 37 41 48
2018-04-06	37	1st	1 29 33 45 47
2017-11-28	8	1st	1 6 12 18 42
2017-10-31	7	1st	1 12 36 43 46
2017-10-06	3	1st	1 9 15 19 25
2017-09-26	2	1st	1 29 40 41 48
2017-09-19	7	1st	1 8 21 30 45
2017-08-25	10	1st	1 5 7 15 47
2017-07-21	1	1st	1 8 9 26 49
2017-07-18	30	1st	1 25 27 41 45
2017-04-04	4	1st	1 9 24 33 34
2017-03-21	16	1st	1 20 23 44 47
2017-01-24	14	1st	1 5 7 17 23
2016-12-06	—	1st	1 7 11 27 45