Number 27

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 234 draws, 5 from 1–58.

17times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.74σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 58% for any number

13.1average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

48longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 234 draws against 20.2 expected, −0.74σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 234 draws · average wait 13.1 draws · longest completed wait 48 · waiting 7 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 27 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 smallest1 · chance 1.4
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.0
3rd smallest9 · chance 6.5
4th smallest2 · chance 3.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.6

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.

9 23 25 36 38 50

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 58. 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 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-06	7	3rd	16 25 27 41 46
2026-09-29	1	3rd	9 26 27 38 58
2026-09-28	2	4th	2 14 23 27 28
2026-09-26	13	2nd	19 27

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: 27 is drawn with probability 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.