Number 4

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 641 draws, 5 from 1–34.

94times drawn · chance expected 94 −0.03σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

33longest completed wait · 44% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 94 times in 641 draws against 94.3 expected, −0.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 641 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 33 · 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 4 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 smallest66 · chance 63.0
2nd smallest23 · chance 28.0
3rd smallest5 · chance 3.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 15 3 25 29 6

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, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-11	20	1st	4 8 11 14 16
2026-09-21	11	1st	4 7 11 24 34
2026-09-10	9	2nd	3 4 14 21 33
2026-09-01	33	2nd	1 4 16 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: 4 is drawn with probability 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

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