Number 1

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 791 draws, 5 from 1–47.

72times drawn · chance expected 84 −1.40σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 71% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

79longest completed wait · 1% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 72 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, −1.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 72 times in 791 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 79 · 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 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 smallest72 · chance 72.0
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 6.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

26 35 9 3 14 32

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 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 47. 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
2026-09-28	1	1st	1 10 11 15 47
2026-09-24	8	1st	1 11 31 35 36
2026-08-27	5	1st	1 24 28 31 47
2026-08-10	3	1st	1 14 30 34

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-11-11	17	1st	1 9 24 31 36
2024-09-12	15	1st	1 4 23 38 39
2024-07-22	21	1st	1 3 9 26 32
2024-05-09	5	1st	1 14 17 27 35
2024-04-22	2	1st	1 17 26 39 46
2024-04-15	30	1st	1 3 21 22 27
2024-01-01	4	1st	1 20 26 36 38
2023-12-18	22	1st	1 13 18 32 47
2023-10-02	4	1st	1 7 14 15 26
2023-09-18	5	1st	1 3 11 28 43
2023-08-31	7	1st	1 14 25 32 43
2023-08-07	8	1st	1 4 9 40 46
2023-07-10	1	1st	1 18 23 35 47
2023-07-06	32	1st	1 10 17 18 42
2023-03-16	6	1st	1 7 25 31 40
2023-02-23	19	1st	1 6 29 30 40
2022-12-19	3	1st	1 9 12 36 41
2022-12-08	4	1st	1 3 21 38 42
2022-11-24	15	1st	1 10 14 32 40
2022-10-03	11	1st	1 13 17 37 44
2022-08-25	4	1st	1 3 21 27 34
2022-08-11	10	1st	1 12 13 26 40
2022-07-07	4	1st	1 5 22 35 39
2022-06-23	1	1st	1 6 9 33 38
2022-06-20	2	1st	1 3 40 44 47
2022-06-13	79	1st	1 7 11 43 47
2021-09-09	21	1st	1 2 21 25 29
2021-06-28	1	1st	1 9 15 22 34
2021-06-24	4	1st	1 26 31 32 41
2021-06-10	4	1st	1 18 22 36 37
2021-05-27	7	1st	1 7 11 32 36
2021-05-03	4	1st	1 8 12 22 32
2021-04-19	43	1st	1 10 11 16 46
2020-11-19	14	1st	1 3 15 18 29
2020-10-01	9	1st	1 8 9 20 45
2020-08-31	6	1st	1 10 26 35 39
2020-08-10	22	1st	1 10 14 21 26
2020-05-25	12	1st	1 3 24 42 44
2020-04-13	14	1st	1 21 23 29 41
2020-02-24	2	1st	1 19 22 35 40
2020-02-17	2	1st	1 12 34 37 41
2020-02-10	1	1st	1 19 25 43 46
2020-02-06	10	1st	1 9 16 17 21
2020-01-02	29	1st	1 6 13 32 41
2019-09-23	32	1st	1 19 26 28 42
2019-06-03	16	1st	1 9 20 24 46
2019-04-08	1	1st	1 6 19 24 35
2019-04-04	—	1st	1 20 42 43 47