In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · since May 2025 rules — 146 draws, 6 from 1–46.
20times drawn · chance expected 19 +0.24σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7
26longest completed wait · 44% chance of one at least that long
5 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 20 times in 146 draws against 19.0 expected, +0.24σ. 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 20 times in 146 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 2 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 5 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 46. 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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.