Number 1

In Lotto under the 5/90 · since Oct 2025 rules — 113 draws, 5 from 1–90.

9times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.12σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

13.1average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

21longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.12σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 113 draws · average wait 13.1 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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 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 smallest9 · chance 9.0
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 0.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

18 2 10 47 62 68

Never drawn alongside 60 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 59 such strangers 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 90. 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
2026-10-10	12	1st	1 13 18 28 52
2026-09-12	17	1st	1 55 62 70 80
2026-08-08	21	1st	1 6 10 49 77
2026-07-02	21	1st	1 7 10 27 47

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 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.