Number 7

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

11times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.94σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 45% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

25longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 113 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 15 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 7 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 8.3
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.5
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.2
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 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 10 36 38 80 1

Never drawn alongside 51 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 54 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-05	6	1st	7 11 17 23 60
2026-08-22	11	1st	7 22 59 63 83
2026-08-04	11	1st	7 49 62 65 70
2026-07-14	7	2nd	3 7 9 64 75

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