Number 88

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

9times drawn · chance expected 6 +1.12σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 89% for any number

12.6average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

34longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

88 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +1.12σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 88, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 113 draws · average wait 12.6 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 3 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 88 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.8
5th smallest9 · chance 8.2

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.

55 6 9 14 15 48

Never drawn alongside 61 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 59 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 88 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 88 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	3	5th	37 50 55 67 88
2026-09-26	12	5th	6 9 14 62 88
2026-08-29	34	5th	6 43 50 68 88
2026-06-27	29	5th	4 21 26 55 88

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