Number 28

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

15times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.02σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

18longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 1 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.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.6
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.8
4th smallest5 · chance 5.4
5th smallest5 · chance 4.6
6th smallest3 · chance 1.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 14 20 22 29 34

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers 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 43. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-05	1	6th	6 8 10 22 26 28
2026-10-01	3	4th	9 14 23 28 31 43
2026-09-21	2	5th	9 13 14 22 28 29
2026-09-14	9	5th

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: 28 is drawn with probability 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.