Number 1

In UK Lotto under the 6/59 + 1/59 · since Oct 2015 rules — 1,139 draws, 6 from 1–59.

108times drawn · chance expected 116 −0.77σ

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

10.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

39longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 108 times in 1,139 draws against 115.8 expected, −0.77σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 16 times, counted separately.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 108 times in 1,139 draws · average wait 10.4 draws · longest completed wait 39 · 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 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 smallest108 · chance 108.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 2 15 9 12 24

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 58 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 59. 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
2026-09-02	4	1st	1 15 21 24 32 51
2026-08-19	20	1st	1 6 24 32 48 54
2026-06-10	15	1st	1 12 25 29 40 41
2026-04-18	17	1st	1 4

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 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-05-29	18	1st	1 8 16 22 25 56
2024-03-27	14	1st	1 3 22 27 42 48
2024-02-07	8	1st	1 2 17 33 40 51
2024-01-10	2	1st	1 5 15 25 45 53
2024-01-03	16	1st	1 5 19 27 38 59
2023-11-08	11	1st	1 7 12 17 46 53
2023-09-30	26	1st	1 8 14 20 24 40
2023-07-01	3	1st	1 12 20 22 24 35
2023-06-21	10	1st	1 3 4 7 8 15
2023-05-17	19	1st	1 2 4 9 50 51
2023-03-11	19	1st	1 19 27 28 41 50
2023-01-04	3	1st	1 4 9 32 42 58
2022-12-24	8	1st	1 8 14 46 49 59
2022-11-26	3	1st	1 3 5 17 50 52
2022-11-16	2	1st	1 18 27 30 39 53
2022-11-09	11	1st	1 5 29 31 44 58
2022-10-01	19	1st	1 4 9 40 44 58
2022-07-27	16	1st	1 11 14 37 38 39
2022-06-01	14	1st	1 4 6 30 32 38
2022-04-13	23	1st	1 7 10 30 40 53
2022-01-22	16	1st	1 20 25 35 46 59
2021-11-27	15	1st	1 15 16 17 24 48
2021-10-06	9	1st	1 9 16 27 30 51
2021-09-04	6	1st	1 14 21 36 39 41
2021-08-14	12	1st	1 2 15 19 39 43
2021-07-03	9	1st	1 12 27 29 31 47
2021-06-02	1	1st	1 15 17 33 53 59
2021-05-29	9	1st	1 10 16 36 46 55
2021-04-28	14	1st	1 4 27 48 57 59
2021-03-10	4	1st	1 5 9 21 26 42
2021-02-24	4	1st	1 9 16 17 18 34
2021-02-10	5	1st	1 15 29 33 42 49
2021-01-23	3	1st	1 6 25 45 49 52
2021-01-13	21	1st	1 8 12 16 18 42
2020-10-31	8	1st	1 6 16 34 49 59
2020-10-03	2	1st	1 4 13 24 27 47
2020-09-26	15	1st	1 19 35 38 54 55
2020-08-05	2	1st	1 28 42 43 51 58
2020-07-29	3	1st	1 24 39 46 49 52
2020-07-18	5	1st	1 20 24 32 33 42
2020-07-01	2	1st	1 8 24 27 29 55
2020-06-24	6	1st	1 8 33 50 52 57
2020-06-03	16	1st	1 2 5 11 14 33
2020-04-08	29	1st	1 4 19 20 41 45
2019-12-28	13	1st	1 2 12 23 41 55
2019-11-13	16	1st	1 2 7 9 44 55
2019-09-18	6	1st	1 25 28 34 39 57
2019-08-28	35	1st	1 40 41 49 52 57
2019-04-27	13	1st	1 7 26 34 52 53
2019-03-13	11	1st	1 11 29 40 46 48
2019-02-02	5	1st	1 6 41 53 55 59
2019-01-16	12	1st	1 12 44 48 54 55
2018-12-05	11	1st	1 6 13 23 45 56
2018-10-27	3	1st	1 6 25 26 31 39
2018-10-17	17	1st	1 5 6 20 51 54
2018-08-18	2	1st	1 2 6 12 13 55
2018-08-11	14	1st	1 3 10 18 19 37
2018-06-23	9	1st	1 10 15 25 31 47
2018-05-23	1	1st	1 15 17 32 36 45
2018-05-19	2	1st	1 3 34 36 48 52
2018-05-12	10	1st	1 15 21 30 35 44
2018-04-07	1	1st	1 4 31 33 52 55
2018-04-04	20	1st	1 9 15 26 38 43
2018-01-24	19	1st	1 22 39 44 48 59
2017-11-18	7	1st	1 20 24 36 54 58
2017-10-25	11	1st	1 3 11 37 49 58
2017-09-16	14	1st	1 6 31 37 49 50
2017-07-29	6	1st	1 26 41 55 56 59
2017-07-08	5	1st	1 11 18 27 32 50
2017-06-21	1	1st	1 3 5 11 15 43
2017-06-17	22	1st	1 11 16 20 24 44
2017-04-01	11	1st	1 2 11 23 25 54
2017-02-22	25	1st	1 16 28 31 38 54
2016-11-26	39	1st	1 2 28 40 48 49
2016-07-13	1	1st	1 22 30 34 57 58
2016-07-09	1	1st	1 3 22 29 36 42
2016-07-06	14	1st	1 3 20 24 38 39
2016-05-18	4	1st	1 3 28 34 37 46
2016-05-04	1	1st	1 2 3 4 20 21
2016-04-30	3	1st	1 2 5 38 53 56
2016-04-20	23	1st	1 7 9 10 12 31
2016-01-30	4	1st	1 6 21 31 41 44
2016-01-16	7	1st	1 8 12 25 43 52
2015-12-23	—	1st	1 2 4 19 28 41