Number 70

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

10times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.53σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 53% for any number

10.7average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

32longest completed wait · 81% chance of one at least that long

70 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 70, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 113 draws · average wait 10.7 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 12 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 70 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.3
3rd smallest4 · chance 1.8
4th smallest4 · chance 4.3
5th smallest2 · chance 3.5

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 37 58 65 72 76

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

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 70 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 70 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-12	10	4th	1 55 62 70 80
2026-08-21	10	3rd	37 51 70 82 89
2026-08-04	5	5th	7 49 62 65 70
2026-07-24	7	3rd	24 37 70 76 84

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