Number 28

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 642 draws, 5 from 1–34.

96times drawn · chance expected 94 +0.18σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

40longest completed wait · 17% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 642 draws against 94.4 expected, +0.18σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 642 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 40 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.3
3rd smallest17 · chance 12.4
4th smallest35 · chance 41.2
5th smallest42 · chance 41.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 13 14 20 4 12

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 34. 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
2026-10-12	7	1st	28 29 30 31 34
2026-10-05	7	5th	1 5 6 8 28
2026-09-28	1	4th	1 12 13 28 31
2026-09-27	4	4th	2 3 24 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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-06-07	2	4th	2 3 22 28 30
2026-06-05	14	5th	13 14 17 23 28
2026-05-22	3	5th	6 10 16 20 28
2026-05-19	14	5th	11 17 20 24 28
2026-05-05	7	4th	11 18 24 28 31
2026-04-28	1	5th	10 20 22 27 28
2026-04-27	2	4th	9 10 24 28 31
2026-04-25	4	5th	6 10 16 17 28
2026-04-21	4	3rd	16 21 28 30 32
2026-04-17	11	5th	7 9 13 19 28
2026-04-06	9	4th	3 22 26 28 34
2026-03-28	5	4th	3 21 27 28 29
2026-03-23	3	4th	12 15 23 28 33
2026-03-20	10	4th	8 10 23 28 30
2026-03-10	4	5th	1 3 5 14 28
2026-03-06	2	4th	4 17 23 28 32
2026-03-04	1	4th	2 11 18 28 30
2026-03-03	28	4th	4 12 22 28 33
2026-02-03	22	5th	5 12 17 24 28
2026-01-12	4	4th	4 16 21 28 31
2026-01-08	5	4th	4 5 21 28 32
2026-01-03	1	5th	2 7 18 26 28
2026-01-02	8	4th	4 14 26 28 32
2025-12-25	2	4th	18 20 21 28 32
2025-12-23	5	4th	4 15 16 28 29
2025-12-18	3	5th	8 12 24 25 28
2025-12-15	5	5th	3 5 12 17 28
2025-12-10	2	3rd	8 18 28 29 32
2025-12-08	17	3rd	16 21 28 31 33
2025-11-21	9	5th	1 5 16 25 28
2025-11-12	1	5th	4 10 19 21 28
2025-11-11	1	5th	15 16 18 27 28
2025-11-10	22	5th	1 13 18 25 28
2025-10-19	5	5th	11 13 14 15 28
2025-10-14	40	4th	13 14 22 28 32
2025-09-04	3	3rd	15 20 28 31 34
2025-09-01	4	4th	5 7 23 28 30
2025-08-28	13	5th	3 16 21 27 28
2025-08-15	2	3rd	2 22 28 29 31
2025-08-13	4	4th	3 9 22 28 31
2025-08-09	4	4th	16 21 26 28 34
2025-08-05	2	5th	2 6 7 20 28
2025-08-03	3	5th	5 13 14 26 28
2025-07-31	7	5th	2 6 12 14 28
2025-07-24	7	5th	4 9 25 26 28
2025-07-17	6	4th	2 8 14 28 34
2025-07-11	13	3rd	4 8 28 32 34
2025-06-28	5	4th	8 13 20 28 29
2025-06-23	12	2nd	1 28 29 31 32
2025-06-11	8	3rd	4 20 28 32 34
2025-06-03	7	4th	8 18 23 28 33
2025-05-27	10	5th	9 20 23 25 28
2025-05-17	1	5th	4 11 19 21 28
2025-05-16	8	4th	5 8 14 28 33
2025-05-08	7	4th	5 25 27 28 31
2025-05-01	5	3rd	12 16 28 30 34
2025-04-26	15	4th	5 6 17 28 30
2025-04-11	2	4th	1 8 9 28 29
2025-04-09	3	3rd	12 24 28 29 34
2025-04-06	13	5th	10 17 25 27 28
2025-03-24	2	4th	8 12 14 28 34
2025-03-22	13	3rd	11 27 28 29 30
2025-03-09	1	5th	13 20 22 24 28
2025-03-08	2	3rd	10 23 28 29 33
2025-03-06	8	4th	9 19 20 28 33
2025-02-26	5	4th	6 14 25 28 29
2025-02-21	2	3rd	17 18 28 30 33
2025-02-19	6	4th	6 23 27 28 34
2025-02-13	6	5th	2 15 16 26 28
2025-02-07	2	5th	12 13 18 23 28
2025-02-05	25	3rd	9 23 28 29 30
2025-01-11	—	5th	2 9 13 25 28