Number 5

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 99 draws, 6 from 1–42.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.62σ

17draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

18longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, −0.62σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 99 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 17 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 smallest7 · chance 7.0
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.2
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.7
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 13 14 18 20 21

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 42. 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
2026-08-12	8	1st	5 9 18 21 25 27
2026-07-15	2	2nd	1 5 14 22 23 32
2026-07-08	11	1st	5 10 15 29 35 40
2026-05-30	4	1st

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.