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5

Number 5

In Big Sky Bonus under the 4/31 + 1/16 · since Oct 2024 rules — 726 draws, 4 from 1–31.

Main numbersStars4/31 + 1/16 · since Oct 20244/31 + 1/17 · Nov 2016 – Oct 20244/28 · Apr 2016 – Nov 2016
94times drawn · chance expected 94 +0.04σ
8draws waiting · a wait this long: 38% for any number
7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8
33longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long
5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 94 times in 726 draws against 93.7 expected, +0.04σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

5

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 726 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 8 draws now

3 draws: 2024-10-19 to 2024-10-2212 draws: 2024-10-22 to 2024-11-0322 draws: 2024-11-03 to 2024-11-253 draws: 2024-11-25 to 2024-11-289 draws: 2024-11-28 to 2024-12-077 draws: 2024-12-07 to 2024-12-143 draws: 2024-12-14 to 2024-12-179 draws: 2024-12-17 to 2024-12-267 draws: 2024-12-26 to 2025-01-023 draws: 2025-01-02 to 2025-01-059 draws: 2025-01-05 to 2025-01-143 draws: 2025-01-14 to 2025-01-176 draws: 2025-01-17 to 2025-01-231 draws: 2025-01-23 to 2025-01-241 draws: 2025-01-24 to 2025-01-259 draws: 2025-01-25 to 2025-02-0315 draws: 2025-02-03 to 2025-02-1833 draws: 2025-02-18 to 2025-03-239 draws: 2025-03-23 to 2025-04-013 draws: 2025-04-01 to 2025-04-042 draws: 2025-04-04 to 2025-04-0614 draws: 2025-04-06 to 2025-04-205 draws: 2025-04-20 to 2025-04-2511 draws: 2025-04-25 to 2025-05-066 draws: 2025-05-06 to 2025-05-127 draws: 2025-05-12 to 2025-05-1917 draws: 2025-05-19 to 2025-06-0527 draws: 2025-06-05 to 2025-07-0210 draws: 2025-07-02 to 2025-07-1211 draws: 2025-07-12 to 2025-07-233 draws: 2025-07-23 to 2025-07-267 draws: 2025-07-26 to 2025-08-021 draws: 2025-08-02 to 2025-08-032 draws: 2025-08-03 to 2025-08-053 draws: 2025-08-05 to 2025-08-0810 draws: 2025-08-08 to 2025-08-182 draws: 2025-08-18 to 2025-08-201 draws: 2025-08-20 to 2025-08-2112 draws: 2025-08-21 to 2025-09-024 draws: 2025-09-02 to 2025-09-064 draws: 2025-09-06 to 2025-09-102 draws: 2025-09-10 to 2025-09-125 draws: 2025-09-12 to 2025-09-174 draws: 2025-09-17 to 2025-09-214 draws: 2025-09-21 to 2025-09-256 draws: 2025-09-25 to 2025-10-0111 draws: 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-124 draws: 2025-10-12 to 2025-10-164 draws: 2025-10-16 to 2025-10-202 draws: 2025-10-20 to 2025-10-222 draws: 2025-10-22 to 2025-10-243 draws: 2025-10-24 to 2025-10-2715 draws: 2025-10-27 to 2025-11-1116 draws: 2025-11-11 to 2025-11-278 draws: 2025-11-27 to 2025-12-052 draws: 2025-12-05 to 2025-12-0717 draws: 2025-12-07 to 2025-12-242 draws: 2025-12-24 to 2025-12-2612 draws: 2025-12-26 to 2026-01-071 draws: 2026-01-07 to 2026-01-089 draws: 2026-01-08 to 2026-01-177 draws: 2026-01-17 to 2026-01-245 draws: 2026-01-24 to 2026-01-2922 draws: 2026-01-29 to 2026-02-202 draws: 2026-02-20 to 2026-02-221 draws: 2026-02-22 to 2026-02-232 draws: 2026-02-23 to 2026-02-256 draws: 2026-02-25 to 2026-03-036 draws: 2026-03-03 to 2026-03-091 draws: 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-101 draws: 2026-03-10 to 2026-03-1116 draws: 2026-03-11 to 2026-03-279 draws: 2026-03-27 to 2026-04-051 draws: 2026-04-05 to 2026-04-065 draws: 2026-04-06 to 2026-04-118 draws: 2026-04-11 to 2026-04-199 draws: 2026-04-19 to 2026-04-2831 draws: 2026-04-28 to 2026-05-294 draws: 2026-05-29 to 2026-06-0210 draws: 2026-06-02 to 2026-06-121 draws: 2026-06-12 to 2026-06-133 draws: 2026-06-13 to 2026-06-162 draws: 2026-06-16 to 2026-06-181 draws: 2026-06-18 to 2026-06-195 draws: 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-243 draws: 2026-06-24 to 2026-06-279 draws: 2026-06-27 to 2026-07-0613 draws: 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-191 draws: 2026-07-19 to 2026-07-2019 draws: 2026-07-20 to 2026-08-0828 draws: 2026-08-08 to 2026-09-0526 draws: 2026-09-05 to 2026-10-012 draws: 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-03Still waiting — at least 8 draws since 2026-10-032024-10-192024-10-222024-11-032024-11-252024-11-282024-12-072024-12-142024-12-172024-12-262025-01-022025-01-052025-01-142025-01-172025-01-232025-01-242025-01-252025-02-032025-02-182025-03-232025-04-012025-04-042025-04-062025-04-202025-04-252025-05-062025-05-122025-05-192025-06-052025-07-022025-07-122025-07-232025-07-262025-08-022025-08-032025-08-052025-08-082025-08-182025-08-202025-08-212025-09-022025-09-062025-09-102025-09-122025-09-172025-09-212025-09-252025-10-012025-10-122025-10-162025-10-202025-10-222025-10-242025-10-272025-11-112025-11-272025-12-052025-12-072025-12-242025-12-262026-01-072026-01-082026-01-172026-01-242026-01-292026-02-202026-02-222026-02-232026-02-252026-03-032026-03-092026-03-102026-03-112026-03-272026-04-052026-04-062026-04-112026-04-192026-04-282026-05-292026-06-022026-06-122026-06-132026-06-162026-06-182026-06-192026-06-242026-06-272026-07-062026-07-192026-07-202026-08-082026-09-052026-10-012026-10-032024-10-162026-10-11

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 12 times2 draws: 12 times3 draws: 11 times4 draws: 7 times5 draws: 5 times6 draws: 5 times7 draws: 5 times8 draws: 2 times9 draws: 9 times10 draws: 3 times11 draws: 3 times12 draws: 3 times13 draws: 1 time14 draws: 1 time15 draws: 2 times16 draws: 2 times17 draws: 2 times18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 1 time20 draws: 0 times21 draws: 0 times22 draws: 2 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 times25 draws: 0 times26 draws: 1 time27 draws: 1 time28 draws: 1 time29 draws: 0 times30 draws: 0 times31 draws: 1 time32 draws: 0 times33 draws: 1 time34 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

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 smallest64 · chance 60.2
  • 2nd smallest28 · chance 30.1
  • 3rd smallest2 · chance 3.6
  • 4th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16181926613

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 30 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 31. 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

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-10-0321st5101116
2026-10-01261st561118
2026-09-05283rd34515
2026-08-08192nd251824
2026-07-2012nd151618
2026-07-19132nd45627
2026-07-0692nd151126
2026-06-2731st5161927
2026-06-2451st5122425
2026-06-1911st5121430
2026-06-1821st5101316
2026-06-1631st5132426
2026-06-1311st5111431
2026-06-12101st58918
2026-06-0242nd3579
2026-05-29311st571820
2026-04-2892nd252627
2026-04-1981st5131517
2026-04-1151st56730
2026-04-0612nd151822
2026-04-0592nd151928
2026-03-27162nd451516
2026-03-1111st5101125
2026-03-1012nd35628
The other 70 appearances
2026-03-0961st56827
2026-03-0361st5162831
2026-02-2522nd25613
2026-02-2311st581619
2026-02-2222nd45
← number 4Every numbernumber 6 →
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 4/31 tonight whatever it did last week.

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2026-02-20221st5192228
2026-01-2951st561925
2026-01-2472nd151016
2026-01-1791st5152125
2026-01-0811st5152028
2026-01-07121st591215
2025-12-2622nd45619
2025-12-24171st5252631
2025-12-0721st5192327
2025-12-0581st5111323
2025-11-27161st5141521
2025-11-11152nd151822
2025-10-2731st571931
2025-10-2421st571624
2025-10-2221st5101620
2025-10-2042nd451028
2025-10-1641st561415
2025-10-12112nd251724
2025-10-0162nd25827
2025-09-2541st5212226
2025-09-2141st5131426
2025-09-1751st591920
2025-09-1223rd12528
2025-09-1041st5192230
2025-09-0641st57829
2025-09-02122nd45926
2025-08-2112nd451728
2025-08-2021st5132125
2025-08-18101st5262831
2025-08-0831st5101827
2025-08-0521st5101619
2025-08-0311st5131430
2025-08-0271st581519
2025-07-2631st58916
2025-07-23111st5122130
2025-07-12101st57824
2025-07-02272nd351927
2025-06-05171st591822
2025-05-1971st5162225
2025-05-1261st591617
2025-05-06111st562630
2025-04-2551st5121530
2025-04-20141st5111827
2025-04-0622nd35830
2025-04-0431st5202327
2025-04-0191st5202331
2025-03-23332nd151729
2025-02-18151st5182629
2025-02-0392nd251331
2025-01-2511st591225
2025-01-2412nd451314
2025-01-2361st5131724
2025-01-1731st5152526
2025-01-1491st5202431
2025-01-0531st572430
2025-01-0272nd252528
2024-12-2692nd15630
2024-12-1731st5122226
2024-12-1471st562326
2024-12-0792nd251723
2024-11-2831st5111621
2024-11-25221st5212229
2024-11-03121st5182024
2024-10-2231st581824
2024-10-19—1st5111429