Number 1

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

90times drawn · chance expected 92 −0.19σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 13% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

34longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 90 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 90 times in 642 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 14 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 smallest90 · chance 90.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 21 24 28 37 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 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 42. 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
2026-08-22	3	1st	1 4 7 12 24 31
2026-08-12	5	1st	1 5 8 18 29 37
2026-07-25	8	1st	1 23 24 29 34 38
2026-06-27	8	1st	1

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-11-20	25	1st	1 12 14 15 23 24
2024-08-24	17	1st	1 10 11 19 25 42
2024-06-26	4	1st	1 8 11 36 37 40
2024-06-12	4	1st	1 9 12 23 26 28
2024-05-29	2	1st	1 9 27 29 31 37
2024-05-22	4	1st	1 2 3 5 21 41
2024-05-08	6	1st	1 2 3 17 21 29
2024-04-17	4	1st	1 9 15 19 21 26
2024-04-03	3	1st	1 15 18 19 22 29
2024-03-23	5	1st	1 20 26 28 30 35
2024-03-06	4	1st	1 7 19 24 32 37
2024-02-21	16	1st	1 3 5 6 12 20
2023-12-27	27	1st	1 17 31 35 41 42
2023-09-23	12	1st	1 4 23 26 29 42
2023-08-12	13	1st	1 11 19 28 34 42
2023-06-28	3	1st	1 4 26 31 33 37
2023-06-17	2	1st	1 13 14 17 34 40
2023-06-10	15	1st	1 4 6 11 31 41
2023-04-19	5	1st	1 3 8 16 21 31
2023-04-01	3	1st	1 4 7 13 24 38
2023-03-22	1	1st	1 20 21 34 35 40
2023-03-18	4	1st	1 9 12 16 20 33
2023-03-04	2	1st	1 15 20 24 34 38
2023-02-25	2	1st	1 16 21 23 37 39
2023-02-18	1	1st	1 13 18 19 25 28
2023-02-15	1	1st	1 5 11 17 22 31
2023-02-11	10	1st	1 8 16 22 31 35
2023-01-07	5	1st	1 19 23 24 29 31
2022-12-21	4	1st	1 5 13 24 26 37
2022-12-07	3	1st	1 3 5 9 36 39
2022-11-26	1	1st	1 8 16 30 33 38
2022-11-23	5	1st	1 3 10 25 28 31
2022-11-05	2	1st	1 8 11 24 29 35
2022-10-29	2	1st	1 20 25 27 30 37
2022-10-22	4	1st	1 2 14 19 21 30
2022-10-08	34	1st	1 6 8 11 33 39
2022-06-11	2	1st	1 3 21 31 35 39
2022-06-04	1	1st	1 6 31 33 35 40
2022-06-01	3	1st	1 4 15 26 27 42
2022-05-21	30	1st	1 4 10 11 16 26
2022-02-05	11	1st	1 8 17 21 37 42
2021-12-29	15	1st	1 7 11 17 21 39
2021-11-03	10	1st	1 20 21 24 32 33
2021-09-29	4	1st	1 13 26 37 38 42
2021-09-15	1	1st	1 3 7 15 18 19
2021-09-11	12	1st	1 12 21 25 27 40
2021-07-31	3	1st	1 23 24 29 33 36
2021-07-21	1	1st	1 3 15 21 27 32
2021-07-17	2	1st	1 7 11 18 20 27
2021-07-10	3	1st	1 17 20 25 28 37
2021-06-30	1	1st	1 2 14 15 22 36
2021-06-26	3	1st	1 24 29 32 37 41
2021-06-16	6	1st	1 12 15 19 32 38
2021-05-26	18	1st	1 15 16 20 26 31
2021-03-24	12	1st	1 10 12 17 28 41
2021-02-10	1	1st	1 9 14 21 23 26
2021-02-06	6	1st	1 12 15 23 30 40
2021-01-16	6	1st	1 4 12 18 37 40
2020-12-26	2	1st	1 7 8 10 23 27
2020-12-19	1	1st	1 13 18 25 32 36
2020-12-16	19	1st	1 7 25 26 31 32
2020-10-10	2	1st	1 16 27 28 35 41
2020-10-03	4	1st	1 16 33 34 37 42
2020-09-19	1	1st	1 2 20 27 28 35
2020-09-16	5	1st	1 5 30 32 35 40
2020-08-29	—	1st	1 7 20 34 38 42