Number 5

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 232 draws, 5 from 1–58.

15times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.17σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 91% for any number

11.6average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

34longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 232 draws against 20.0 expected, −1.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 232 draws · average wait 11.6 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 2 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 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 smallest10 · chance 11.1
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.6
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 21 1 42 49 52

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	24	3rd	1 2 5 51 57
2026-09-15	2	1st	5 6 14 36 38
2026-09-13	2	1st	5 8 27 40 46
2026-09-11	34	1st	5 8

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.