Number 28

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

10times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.53σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

12.4average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

33longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 113 draws · average wait 12.4 draws · longest completed wait 33 · 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 28 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 smallest2 · chance 2.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.7
4th smallest2 · chance 0.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

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.

32 10 18 31 33 36

Never drawn alongside 59 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 57 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 28 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-10	27	4th	1 13 18 28 52
2026-08-13	3	1st	28 31 32 63 82
2026-08-07	33	4th	5 19 27 28 75
2026-06-09	6	2nd	15 28 32 56 67

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: 28 is drawn with probability 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.