Number 52

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

16times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.94σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 76% for any number

14.2average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

42longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long

52 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 232 draws against 20.0 expected, −0.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 52, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 232 draws · average wait 14.2 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 4 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 52 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.8
4th smallest3 · chance 5.1
5th smallest12 · chance 10.1

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.

5 13 21 32 41 45

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 52 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 52 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	14	4th	15 19 33 52 57
2026-09-23	4	5th	11 13 17 20 52
2026-09-19	8	5th	4 18 21 45 52
2026-09-11	7	5th	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: 52 is drawn with probability 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.