Number 71

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

10times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.53σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 50% for any number

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

20longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

71 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 71, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 113 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 13 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 71 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 smallest2 · chance 1.7
4th smallest3 · chance 4.3
5th smallest5 · chance 3.8

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.

36 16 55 61 73 1

Never drawn alongside 55 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 57 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 71 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 71 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-10	18	3rd	37 41 71 75 87
2026-08-06	2	5th	21 53 59 61 71
2026-08-01	16	5th	9 17 20 65 71
2026-07-03	20	5th	15 16 23 31 71

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