Number 1

In Cash4Life under the 5/60 + 1/4 · since May 2015 rules — 2,862 draws, 5 from 1–60.

249times drawn · chance expected 239 +0.71σ

31draws waiting · a wait this long: 7% for any number

11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 12.0

62longest completed wait · 71% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 249 times in 2,862 draws against 238.5 expected, +0.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 31 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 249 times in 2,862 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 62 · waiting 31 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 1 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 smallest249 · chance 249.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 16.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 36 41 8 55 9

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 59 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 60. 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 model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-01-21	11	1st	1 20 27 49 60
2026-01-10	3	1st	1 9 28 35 54
2026-01-07	2	1st	1 7 30 41 56
2026-01-05	4	1st	1 15 50 55

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: 1 is drawn with probability 5/60 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-06-16	22	1st	1 8 15 44 51
2025-05-25	1	1st	1 35 46 53 59
2025-05-24	8	1st	1 3 11 17 58
2025-05-16	6	1st	1 21 25 26 36
2025-05-10	12	1st	1 4 37 38 44
2025-04-28	20	1st	1 8 13 33 52
2025-04-08	2	1st	1 3 5 16 44
2025-04-06	11	1st	1 2 29 41 58
2025-03-26	5	1st	1 6 17 30 53
2025-03-21	9	1st	1 7 9 11 13
2025-03-12	9	1st	1 2 28 48 57
2025-03-03	8	1st	1 17 27 52 55
2025-02-23	12	1st	1 7 11 30 37
2025-02-11	27	1st	1 10 14 22 33
2025-01-15	11	1st	1 11 25 47 55
2025-01-04	19	1st	1 21 24 32 46
2024-12-16	1	1st	1 11 23 35 52
2024-12-15	3	1st	1 18 22 29 39
2024-12-12	12	1st	1 2 40 50 55
2024-11-30	5	1st	1 26 32 53 58
2024-11-25	18	1st	1 8 15 31 59
2024-11-07	6	1st	1 19 31 51 60
2024-11-01	5	1st	1 11 21 35 49
2024-10-27	9	1st	1 4 15 29 56
2024-10-18	15	1st	1 23 41 43 59
2024-10-03	4	1st	1 5 26 30 46
2024-09-29	1	1st	1 5 8 16 34
2024-09-28	1	1st	1 8 17 43 53
2024-09-27	7	1st	1 5 6 27 55
2024-09-20	10	1st	1 7 31 52 53
2024-09-10	17	1st	1 2 14 21 32
2024-08-24	18	1st	1 10 37 45 49
2024-08-06	2	1st	1 5 36 38 57
2024-08-04	15	1st	1 14 41 44 45
2024-07-20	2	1st	1 5 23 41 49
2024-07-18	26	1st	1 11 16 31 44
2024-06-22	9	1st	1 8 12 34 55
2024-06-13	10	1st	1 23 34 35 36
2024-06-03	6	1st	1 8 10 26 45
2024-05-28	4	1st	1 3 21 23 60
2024-05-24	6	1st	1 4 8 28 44
2024-05-18	5	1st	1 11 27 39 54
2024-05-13	23	1st	1 8 19 22 40
2024-04-20	42	1st	1 27 35 55 58
2024-03-09	19	1st	1 6 23 37 56
2024-02-19	8	1st	1 39 49 53 54
2024-02-11	18	1st	1 21 38 39 59
2024-01-24	28	1st	1 9 22 27 50
2023-12-27	6	1st	1 7 10 25 32
2023-12-21	22	1st	1 10 11 36 38
2023-11-29	7	1st	1 26 27 51 59
2023-11-22	2	1st	1 21 32 48 51
2023-11-20	4	1st	1 16 31 38 45
2023-11-16	4	1st	1 9 24 56 60
2023-11-12	32	1st	1 21 41 56 57
2023-10-11	28	1st	1 9 27 42 56
2023-09-13	2	1st	1 31 51 56 60
2023-09-11	3	1st	1 9 19 28 52
2023-09-08	17	1st	1 2 24 46 49
2023-08-22	9	1st	1 15 40 44 55
2023-08-13	19	1st	1 3 43 47 59
2023-07-25	5	1st	1 12 17 44 52
2023-07-20	45	1st	1 4 5 6 39
2023-06-05	2	1st	1 5 7 44 52
2023-06-03	12	1st	1 36 49 52 54
2023-05-22	7	1st	1 36 39 57 60
2023-05-15	5	1st	1 6 20 46 54
2023-05-10	6	1st	1 5 8 23 46
2023-05-04	4	1st	1 6 13 16 36
2023-04-30	3	1st	1 29 30 35 55
2023-04-27	1	1st	1 4 24 47 58
2023-04-26	15	1st	1 9 31 55 59
2023-04-11	5	1st	1 14 30 45 49
2023-04-06	15	1st	1 5 39 41 60
2023-03-22	8	1st	1 10 22 30 36
2023-03-14	34	1st	1 11 27 41 44
2023-02-08	22	1st	1 5 7 30 36
2023-01-17	4	1st	1 5 26 38 48
2023-01-13	4	1st	1 13 16 20 50
2023-01-09	1	1st	1 7 8 17 52
2023-01-08	4	1st	1 10 23 32 54
2023-01-04	2	1st	1 5 6 28 41
2023-01-02	2	1st	1 9 13 17 45
2022-12-31	1	1st	1 4 6 25 60
2022-12-30	5	1st	1 6 28 30 60
2022-12-25	3	1st	1 32 37 53 56
2022-12-22	36	1st	1 6 11 28 33
2022-11-16	48	1st	1 33 48 52 55
2022-09-29	3	1st	1 3 26 44 59
2022-09-26	5	1st	1 8 11 31 57
2022-09-21	1	1st	1 4 43 48 60
2022-09-20	14	1st	1 10 28 44 45
2022-09-06	8	1st	1 13 17 57 60
2022-08-29	3	1st	1 2 24 31 51
2022-08-26	33	1st	1 18 23 39 55
2022-07-24	2	1st	1 7 15 16 51
2022-07-22	12	1st	1 15 19 26 49
2022-07-10	21	1st	1 5 11 21 33
2022-06-19	3	1st	1 6 20 36 51
2022-06-16	7	1st	1 4 11 28 43
2022-06-09	8	1st	1 7 24 53 56
2022-06-01	22	1st	1 27 33 37 42
2022-05-10	2	1st	1 8 34 36 48
2022-05-08	13	1st	1 12 34 45 48
2022-04-25	25	1st	1 8 9 12 14
2022-03-31	54	1st	1 2 27 29 30
2022-02-05	5	1st	1 2 13 26 43
2022-01-31	14	1st	1 11 24 37 54
2022-01-17	5	1st	1 19 36 43 53
2022-01-12	2	1st	1 6 24 36 58
2022-01-10	4	1st	1 3 29 34 39
2022-01-06	17	1st	1 13 15 28 52
2021-12-20	8	1st	1 23 28 39 40
2021-12-12	62	1st	1 5 13 37 38
2021-10-11	24	1st	1 8 17 38 47
2021-09-17	5	1st	1 3 8 22 37
2021-09-12	14	1st	1 2 13 44 51
2021-08-29	1	1st	1 5 26 40 59
2021-08-28	2	1st	1 18 28 32 36
2021-08-26	16	1st	1 4 11 46 52
2021-08-10	23	1st	1 4 9 21 51
2021-07-18	10	1st	1 31 40 49 55
2021-07-08	4	1st	1 8 15 21 48
2021-07-04	2	1st	1 3 6 25 48
2021-07-02	2	1st	1 9 12 13 20
2021-06-30	1	1st	1 27 29 41 44
2021-06-29	24	1st	1 9 15 30 41
2021-06-05	11	1st	1 4 26 31 36
2021-05-25	5	1st	1 16 28 38 41
2021-05-20	12	1st	1 21 23 50 55
2021-05-08	19	1st	1 9 20 49 56
2021-04-19	8	1st	1 6 14 18 33
2021-04-11	17	1st	1 8 19 39 50
2021-03-25	24	1st	1 3 13 28 49
2021-03-01	5	1st	1 7 45 50 53
2021-02-24	17	1st	1 16 43 58 60
2021-02-07	24	1st	1 7 16 44 47
2021-01-14	22	1st	1 10 17 32 39
2020-12-23	1	1st	1 18 21 23 32
2020-12-22	6	1st	1 5 15 27 46
2020-12-16	15	1st	1 4 8 10 37
2020-12-01	35	1st	1 2 25 48 53
2020-10-27	1	1st	1 13 21 30 41
2020-10-26	10	1st	1 6 19 58 59
2020-10-16	11	1st	1 2 20 36 37
2020-10-05	5	1st	1 3 35 37 42
2020-09-30	8	1st	1 16 39 41 58
2020-09-22	9	1st	1 8 17 20 56
2020-09-13	6	1st	1 19 27 44 46
2020-09-07	13	1st	1 2 20 37 56
2020-08-25	19	1st	1 12 28 47 49
2020-08-06	55	1st	1 19 31 35 55
2020-06-12	5	1st	1 15 20 34 56
2020-06-07	3	1st	1 9 12 39 51
2020-06-04	22	1st	1 5 21 25 60
2020-05-13	3	1st	1 18 21 43 50
2020-05-10	13	1st	1 6 15 17 36
2020-04-27	16	1st	1 42 43 57 60
2020-04-11	7	1st	1 19 41 42 47
2020-04-04	9	1st	1 14 16 41 52
2020-03-26	4	1st	1 41 42 47 58
2020-03-22	5	1st	1 34 41 43 53
2020-03-17	21	1st	1 23 30 45 53
2020-02-25	12	1st	1 31 34 38 47
2020-02-13	12	1st	1 11 27 45 47
2020-02-01	16	1st	1 12 22 33 42
2020-01-16	6	1st	1 9 25 38 57
2020-01-10	12	1st	1 3 26 27 44
2019-12-29	6	1st	1 19 20 25 36
2019-12-23	14	1st	1 9 40 53 58
2019-12-09	13	1st	1 30 42 47 52
2019-11-26	5	1st	1 4 16 30 40
2019-11-21	4	1st	1 25 35 42 51
2019-11-17	4	1st	1 2 26 47 56
2019-11-13	7	1st	1 36 40 54 55
2019-11-06	7	1st	1 7 21 36 47
2019-10-30	3	1st	1 3 15 26 53
2019-10-27	2	1st	1 5 10 30 54
2019-10-25	20	1st	1 23 40 58 60
2019-10-05	2	1st	1 5 20 21 57
2019-10-03	7	1st	1 25 53 56 58
2019-09-26	26	1st	1 5 48 50 51
2019-08-31	12	1st	1 26 41 45 59
2019-08-19	8	1st	1 15 31 43 56
2019-08-11	1	1st	1 15 22 25 37
2019-08-10	6	1st	1 7 16 23 35
2019-08-04	1	1st	1 15 17 43 49
2019-08-03	28	1st	1 6 19 47 55
2019-07-06	18	1st	1 5 28 32 53
2019-05-16	5	1st	1 36 45 53 56
2019-04-29	20	1st	1 21 24 30 35
2019-02-18	2	1st	1 37 39 48 54
2019-02-11	7	1st	1 2 39 50 60
2019-01-17	6	1st	1 22 23 29 52
2018-12-27	19	1st	1 7 36 50 52
2018-10-22	21	1st	1 11 19 24 46
2018-08-09	2	1st	1 24 26 48 60
2018-08-02	6	1st	1 10 14 29 30
2018-07-12	12	1st	1 20 28 48 56
2018-05-31	5	1st	1 28 42 47 55
2018-05-14	20	1st	1 4 6 13 32
2018-03-05	5	1st	1 47 52 54 58
2018-02-15	1	1st	1 43 44 53 54
2018-02-12	5	1st	1 5 17 21 33
2018-01-25	1	1st	1 6 24 41 44
2018-01-22	9	1st	1 5 10 28 57
2017-12-21	54	1st	1 9 25 37 60
2017-06-15	12	1st	1 9 17 26 55
2017-05-04	16	1st	1 2 17 24 38
2017-03-09	1	1st	1 8 23 56 58
2017-03-06	11	1st	1 5 14 22 50
2017-01-26	11	1st	1 14 25 40 59
2016-12-19	16	1st	1 8 16 22 47
2016-10-24	9	1st	1 2 20 40 55
2016-09-22	3	1st	1 3 24 42 59
2016-09-12	15	1st	1 32 39 55 58
2016-07-21	8	1st	1 4 18 29 32
2016-06-23	1	1st	1 9 36 38 46
2016-06-20	3	1st	1 12 14 32 60
2016-06-09	46	1st	1 4 12 33 41
2015-12-31	17	1st	1 5 24 47 55
2015-11-02	10	1st	1 7 12 34 44
2015-09-28	26	1st	1 25 29 43 54
2015-06-29	3	1st	1 19 37 49 56
2015-06-18	—	1st	1 2 14 29 59