Number 5

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

107times drawn · chance expected 116 −0.87σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 34% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

50longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 107 times in 1,139 draws against 115.8 expected, −0.87σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 25 times, counted separately.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 107 times in 1,139 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 50 · waiting 11 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 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 smallest76 · chance 73.8
2nd smallest26 · chance 29.5
3rd smallest5 · chance 3.5
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
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 9.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

58 9 43 29 53 10

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, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-29	19	1st	5 10 22 38 56 58
2026-05-23	18	2nd	4 5 6 7 11 33
2026-03-21	11	1st	5 10 18 28 34 53
2026-02-11	6	1st	5 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: 5 is drawn with probability 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.

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