Number 4

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

116times drawn · chance expected 116 +0.02σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

40longest completed wait · 83% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 116 times in 1,139 draws against 115.8 expected, +0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 19 times, counted separately.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 116 times in 1,139 draws · average wait 9.7 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 4 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 smallest87 · chance 88.1
2nd smallest23 · chance 25.9
3rd smallest5 · chance 2.0
4th smallest1 · 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 10.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

56 1 27 38 13 26

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, 4 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 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-05	15	2nd	3 4 10 20 49 51
2026-07-15	13	1st	4 13 14 17 23 31
2026-05-30	2	1st	4 17 18 20 23 56
2026-05-23	2	1st	4 5

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: 4 is drawn with probability 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.

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