Number 62

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

12times drawn · chance expected 6 +2.35σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

33longest completed wait · 85% chance of one at least that long

62 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +2.35σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 62, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 113 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 6 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 62 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 smallest0 · chance 1.0
3rd smallest6 · chance 3.4
4th smallest4 · chance 5.0
5th smallest2 · chance 2.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

61 68 70 1 14 30

Never drawn alongside 53 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 52 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 62 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 62 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-26	6	4th	6 9 14 62 88
2026-09-12	8	3rd	1 55 62 70 80
2026-08-25	12	4th	19 30 50 62 82
2026-08-04	33	3rd	7 49 62 65 70

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