Number 61

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

8times drawn · chance expected 6 +0.71σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 67% for any number

13.6average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

34longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

61 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +0.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 61, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 113 draws · average wait 13.6 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 8 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 61 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest2 · chance 0.7
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.4
4th smallest3 · chance 3.3
5th smallest1 · chance 1.6

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.

62 8 53 69 71 4

Never drawn alongside 63 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 62 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 61 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 38th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 61 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-22	23	2nd	17 61 69 74 81
2026-08-06	34	4th	21 53 59 61 71
2026-06-05	1	2nd	30 61 62 68 75
2026-06-04	12	3rd	15 53 61 62

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