Number 5

In Pick 5 under the 5/9 · since Aug 2021 rules — 1,888 draws, 5 from 0–9.

950times drawn · chance expected 944 +0.28σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

2.0average wait between appearances · chance says 2.0

15longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 950 times in 1,888 draws against 944.0 expected, +0.28σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 950 times in 1,888 draws · average wait 2.0 draws · longest completed wait 15 · 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest48 · chance 7.5
2nd smallest229 · chance 150.8
3rd smallest376 · chance 452.4
4th smallest245 · chance 301.6
5th smallest52 · chance 37.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 422.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 4 1 3 7 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 9 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 10. 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-11	2	2nd	1 5 7 7 8
2026-10-09	2	4th	0 1 3 5 8
2026-10-07	4	4th	0 0 4 5 8
2026-10-03	1	4th	1 2 3 5

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: 5 is drawn with probability 5/10 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-08-24	1	3rd	0 4 5 7
2026-08-23	1	3rd	0 2 5 8 8
2026-08-22	2	2nd	4 5 9 9 9
2026-08-20	2	4th	2 3 4 5 6
2026-08-18	3	2nd	0 5 6 7 7
2026-08-15	2	3rd	1 1 5 8 8
2026-08-13	2	3rd	0 0 5 6 8
2026-08-11	3	4th	1 1 2 5 6
2026-08-08	2	5th	0 0 1 4 5
2026-08-06	0	4th	0 2 3 5
2026-08-06	3	4th	0 2 3 5
2026-08-03	1	2nd	0 5 6 7 7
2026-08-02	2	3rd	0 1 5 8 9
2026-07-31	0	3rd	2 4 5
2026-07-31	0	3rd	2 4 5
2026-07-31	1	3rd	2 4 5
2026-07-30	0	1st	5 6 9 9
2026-07-30	3	1st	5 6 9 9
2026-07-27	12	3rd	1 4 5 7 9
2026-07-15	0	4th	0 2 4 5
2026-07-15	2	4th	0 2 4 5
2026-07-13	6	2nd	0 5 6 8 8
2026-07-07	1	5th	0 1 3 4 5
2026-07-06	1	4th	0 3 3 5 6
2026-07-05	0	3rd	1 1 5
2026-07-05	0	3rd	1 1 5
2026-07-05	5	3rd	1 1 5
2026-06-30	2	4th	1 1 2 5 6
2026-06-28	1	3rd	3 4 5 6 7
2026-06-27	0	3rd	3 4 5 6
2026-06-27	1	3rd	3 4 5 6
2026-06-26	2	5th	2 3 4 4 5
2026-06-24	1	3rd	1 4 5 6 9
2026-06-23	0	3rd	0 4 5 6
2026-06-23	1	3rd	0 4 5 6
2026-06-22	1	3rd	0 0 5 6 7
2026-06-21	3	4th	1 1 3 5 8
2026-06-18	3	4th	0 0 4 5 9
2026-06-15	7	4th	0 0 2 5 7
2026-06-08	1	3rd	2 4 5 8 9