In MillionDay Day under the 5/55 · since Sep 2024 rules — 727 draws, 5 from 1–55.
56times drawn · chance expected 66 −1.30σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
13.1average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0
61longest completed wait · 17% chance of one at least that long
5 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 56 times in 727 draws against 66.1 expected, −1.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
5
Number 5, draw by draw
Drawn 56 times in 727 draws · average wait 13.1 draws · longest completed wait 61 · drawn in the most recent draw
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 5 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 54 numbers; chance expects about 0.9 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 5 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 55. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 5 is drawn with probability 5/55 tonight whatever it did last week.