Number 28

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

19times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.27σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 28% for any number

11.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

29longest completed wait · 78% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 19 times in 234 draws against 20.2 expected, −0.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 19 times in 234 draws · average wait 11.8 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 15 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.3
3rd smallest6 · chance 7.3
4th smallest6 · chance 4.2
5th smallest2 · chance 0.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

55 2 6 13 14 15

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 15 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 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 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	8	5th	2 14 23 27 28
2026-09-20	3	2nd	14 28 30 37 42
2026-09-17	25	2nd	7 28 30 31 58
2026-08-23	9	2nd	15 28

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.