Number 11

In Cash 5 under the 5/35 · since Jan 2010 rules — 6,125 draws, 5 from 1–35.

837times drawn · chance expected 875 −1.39σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 10% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

46longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

11 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 837 times in 6,125 draws against 875.0 expected, −1.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 11, draw by draw

Drawn 837 times in 6,125 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 46 · waiting 16 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 11 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 smallest190 · chance 191.8
2nd smallest381 · chance 365.3
3rd smallest214 · chance 224.2
4th smallest50 · chance 52.0
5th smallest2 · chance 3.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 98.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

26 10 13 22 18 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 11 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 35. 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 11 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-26	2	2nd	10 11 13 16 34
2026-09-24	6	3rd	3 9 11 17 25
2026-09-18	4	3rd	9 10 11 32 34
2026-09-14	4	1st	11 12 14 15

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: 11 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.