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5

Number 5

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

6/43 · since Sep 20256/43 + 1/0 · Nov 2022 – Sep 20256/43 · Apr 2010 – Nov 2022
10times drawn · chance expected 15 −1.41σ
7draws waiting · a wait this long: 41% for any number
10.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2
26longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long
5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −1.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

5

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws · average wait 10.9 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 7 draws now

15 draws: 2025-10-06 to 2025-11-278 draws: 2025-11-27 to 2025-12-256 draws: 2025-12-25 to 2026-01-1521 draws: 2026-01-15 to 2026-03-303 draws: 2026-03-30 to 2026-04-0926 draws: 2026-04-09 to 2026-07-091 draws: 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-132 draws: 2026-07-13 to 2026-07-2016 draws: 2026-07-20 to 2026-09-14Still waiting — at least 7 draws since 2026-09-142025-10-062025-11-272025-12-252026-01-152026-03-302026-04-092026-07-092026-07-132026-07-202026-09-142025-09-292026-10-08

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 1 time2 draws: 1 time3 draws: 1 time4 draws: 0 times5 draws: 0 times6 draws: 1 time7 draws: 0 times8 draws: 1 time9 draws: 0 times10 draws: 0 times11 draws: 0 times12 draws: 0 times13 draws: 0 times14 draws: 0 times15 draws: 1 time16 draws: 1 time17 draws: 0 times18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 0 times20 draws: 0 times21 draws: 1 time22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 times25 draws: 0 times26 draws: 1 time27 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 5 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 smallest4 · chance 5.9
  • 2nd smallest4 · chance 3.5
  • 3rd smallest1 · chance 0.6
  • 4th smallest1 · 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 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14110141928

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers 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 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
  • Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-09-14161st51119222841
2026-07-2021st51014212629
2026-07-1312nd2510152425
2026-07-09262nd
← number 4Every numbernumber 6 →
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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.

1518363941
2026-04-0931st51419394143
2026-03-30213rd135162028
2026-01-1562nd2511121434
2025-12-2582nd158182541
2025-11-27151st51316282935
2025-10-06—4th13451019