Number 4

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

100times drawn · chance expected 92 +0.93σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

6.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

28longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 100 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, +0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 100 times in 642 draws · average wait 6.4 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 6 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 4 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 smallest62 · chance 67.0
2nd smallest36 · chance 29.5
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
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 12.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 7 26 39 42 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, 4 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 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-19	7	2nd	2 4 11 14 16 40
2026-08-26	1	1st	4 10 18 19 28 36
2026-08-22	7	2nd	1 4 7 12 24 31
2026-07-29	12	1st	4

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: 4 is drawn with probability 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-05-21	4	1st	4 7 17 27 28 35
2025-05-07	5	2nd	3 4 5 21 34 38
2025-04-19	3	2nd	1 4 6 11 21 31
2025-04-09	3	1st	4 7 23 34 38 39
2025-03-29	1	1st	4 5 12 15 23 40
2025-03-26	1	2nd	3 4 9 30 34 39
2025-03-22	6	1st	4 5 14 21 40 42
2025-03-01	14	1st	4 10 14 15 26 32
2025-01-11	1	1st	4 7 14 19 27 38
2025-01-08	2	1st	4 8 18 20 32 33
2025-01-01	12	1st	4 18 21 22 24 31
2024-11-16	7	1st	4 12 21 33 37 40
2024-10-23	3	2nd	2 4 8 31 39 42
2024-10-12	5	1st	4 12 17 20 25 27
2024-09-25	1	1st	4 12 13 24 37 40
2024-09-21	28	1st	4 7 14 28 32 37
2024-06-15	10	2nd	3 4 5 8 28 38
2024-05-11	21	1st	4 8 10 11 12 36
2024-02-28	1	2nd	2 4 8 11 30 35
2024-02-24	12	1st	4 14 15 24 31 35
2024-01-13	1	1st	4 12 22 27 33 42
2024-01-10	5	2nd	3 4 5 19 20 31
2023-12-23	2	1st	4 6 8 20 23 30
2023-12-16	2	1st	4 8 10 15 16 36
2023-12-09	3	1st	4 7 26 32 35 37
2023-11-29	4	1st	4 7 17 21 27 36
2023-11-15	5	2nd	2 4 11 17 20 39
2023-10-28	10	2nd	2 4 11 19 25 36
2023-09-23	3	2nd	1 4 23 26 29 42
2023-09-13	2	2nd	3 4 6 14 22 38
2023-09-06	20	2nd	2 4 13 26 34 37
2023-06-28	2	2nd	1 4 26 31 33 37
2023-06-21	3	1st	4 6 14 16 24 30
2023-06-10	6	2nd	1 4 6 11 31 41
2023-05-20	5	1st	4 15 21 22 27 42
2023-05-03	3	1st	4 6 8 10 24 28
2023-04-22	6	1st	4 7 17 18 19 39
2023-04-01	7	2nd	1 4 7 13 24 38
2023-03-08	2	2nd	3 4 28 33 34 38
2023-03-01	9	2nd	2 4 9 15 22 38
2023-01-28	2	1st	4 11 17 23 24 31
2023-01-21	3	1st	4 12 15 17 22 31
2023-01-11	4	1st	4 8 27 37 41 42
2022-12-28	18	2nd	2 4 10 26 32 36
2022-10-26	7	2nd	2 4 17 23 24 27
2022-10-01	2	1st	4 8 22 24 28 34
2022-09-24	15	2nd	2 4 17 28 34 42
2022-08-03	1	1st	4 15 20 25 27 30
2022-07-30	12	1st	4 5 11 15 18 29
2022-06-18	5	2nd	3 4 11 19 36 39
2022-06-01	2	2nd	1 4 15 26 27 42
2022-05-25	1	1st	4 7 9 10 35 39
2022-05-21	9	2nd	1 4 10 11 16 26
2022-04-20	10	1st	4 13 26 30 34 40
2022-03-16	2	1st	4 13 18 22 38 41
2022-03-09	1	2nd	3 4 11 35 37 40
2022-03-05	13	2nd	3 4 8 27 28 38
2022-01-19	1	1st	4 9 15 18 21 34
2022-01-15	6	1st	4 7 21 23 28 39
2021-12-22	8	2nd	2 4 7 16 24 28
2021-11-24	4	2nd	3 4 8 13 21 33
2021-11-10	5	2nd	3 4 6 12 19 38
2021-10-23	3	1st	4 10 19 29 31 32
2021-10-13	17	2nd	2 4 6 24 37 40
2021-08-14	5	1st	4 14 24 25 35 42
2021-07-28	16	1st	4 8 15 19 23 27
2021-06-02	1	1st	4 7 19 22 26 41
2021-05-29	6	1st	4 10 20 30 35 36
2021-05-08	17	1st	4 24 26 28 30 36
2021-03-10	11	1st	4 22 23 26 32 34
2021-01-30	3	1st	4 5 24 25 30 41
2021-01-20	1	1st	4 20 25 29 39 42
2021-01-16	12	2nd	1 4 12 18 37 40
2020-12-05	26	1st	4 23 25 32 35 36
2020-09-05	6	1st	4 16 18 34 40 42
2020-08-15	—	1st	4 13 26 29 38 42