In Lotto America under the 5/52 + 1/10 · since Nov 2017 rules — 1,151 draws, 5 from 1–52.
94times drawn · chance expected 111 −1.67σ
36draws waiting · a wait this long: 3% for any number
11.9average wait between appearances · chance says 10.4
57longest completed wait · 28% chance of one at least that long
28 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 94 times in 1,151 draws against 110.7 expected, −1.67σ. Each draw is independent: after 36 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
28
Number 28, draw by draw
Drawn 94 times in 1,151 draws · average wait 11.9 draws · longest completed wait 57 · waiting 36 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 28 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 28 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 52. 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: 28 is drawn with probability 5/52 tonight whatever it did last week.