Number 1

In Jersey Cash 5 under the 5/45 · since Jun 2020 rules — 2,278 draws, 5 from 1–45.

254times drawn · chance expected 253 +0.06σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 62% for any number

8.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.0

52longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 254 times in 2,278 draws against 253.1 expected, +0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 254 times in 2,278 draws · average wait 8.9 draws · longest completed wait 52 · waiting 5 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 1 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 smallest254 · chance 254.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 23.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 3 4 27 23 6

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 45. 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 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	17	1st	1 2 6 10 21
2026-09-18	15	1st	1 2 12 17 40
2026-08-24	2	1st	1 7 8 16 21
2026-08-21	12	1st	1 6 10

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: 1 is drawn with probability 5/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-02-26	3	1st	1 3 21 25 26
2026-02-23	1	1st	1 11 25 35 42
2026-02-22	4	1st	1 7 21 29 37
2026-02-18	3	1st	1 5 34 35 41
2026-02-15	18	1st	1 8 9 28 45
2026-01-28	9	1st	1 15 21 24 27
2026-01-19	5	1st	1 8 14 19 25
2026-01-14	7	1st	1 16 17 28 31
2026-01-07	1	1st	1 2 5 22 35
2026-01-06	8	1st	1 4 5 6 19
2025-12-29	6	1st	1 2 10 30 43
2025-12-22	13	1st	1 25 31 44 45
2025-12-09	8	1st	1 5 15 37 39
2025-12-01	18	1st	1 22 30 37 39
2025-11-13	10	1st	1 4 9 14 21
2025-11-03	14	1st	1 4 14 18 39
2025-10-20	3	1st	1 11 14 23 40
2025-10-17	1	1st	1 16 25 43 45
2025-10-16	5	1st	1 19 20 26 43
2025-10-11	12	1st	1 3 17 24 30
2025-09-29	17	1st	1 6 7 19 43
2025-09-12	9	1st	1 3 27 28 32
2025-09-03	1	1st	1 3 22 23 36
2025-09-02	2	1st	1 4 5 23 42
2025-08-31	4	1st	1 5 7 19 21
2025-08-27	2	1st	1 23 24 33 42
2025-08-25	3	1st	1 3 17 26 44
2025-08-22	11	1st	1 3 28 31 32
2025-08-11	16	1st	1 24 25 37 43
2025-07-26	2	1st	1 21 36 40 45
2025-07-24	8	1st	1 4 5 23 31
2025-07-16	6	1st	1 2 19 20 34
2025-07-10	17	1st	1 5 19 30 34
2025-06-23	18	1st	1 2 14 16 36
2025-06-05	24	1st	1 9 16 32 36
2025-05-12	4	1st	1 2 11 14 23
2025-05-08	12	1st	1 4 25 34 36
2025-04-26	6	1st	1 4 16 19 22
2025-04-20	26	1st	1 8 9 36 43
2025-03-25	12	1st	1 4 30 39 41
2025-03-13	6	1st	1 14 24 39 45
2025-03-07	19	1st	1 6 10 21 42
2025-02-16	2	1st	1 5 11 17 22
2025-02-14	10	1st	1 13 21 27 34
2025-02-04	3	1st	1 17 32 35 40
2025-02-01	3	1st	1 31 34 39 41
2025-01-29	2	1st	1 4 36 38 44
2025-01-27	5	1st	1 4 6 29 39
2025-01-22	9	1st	1 17 36 39 45
2025-01-13	11	1st	1 3 4 11 26
2025-01-02	2	1st	1 23 25 34 40
2024-12-31	2	1st	1 18 38 39 45
2024-12-29	4	1st	1 19 21 27 43
2024-12-24	1	1st	1 23 25 26 29
2024-12-23	42	1st	1 3 22 43 44
2024-11-11	1	1st	1 2 13 14 30
2024-11-10	7	1st	1 5 24 33 43
2024-11-03	16	1st	1 9 15 27 44
2024-10-18	13	1st	1 23 31 33 42
2024-10-05	1	1st	1 26 36 39 44
2024-10-04	4	1st	1 3 12 15 19
2024-09-30	13	1st	1 8 12 13 45
2024-09-17	16	1st	1 16 27 33 35
2024-09-01	7	1st	1 5 17 20 36
2024-08-25	6	1st	1 4 15 41 42
2024-08-19	2	1st	1 5 6 20 38
2024-08-17	1	1st	1 19 24 31 33
2024-08-16	4	1st	1 22 23 25 44
2024-08-12	11	1st	1 10 15 18 43
2024-08-01	13	1st	1 32 37 41 42
2024-07-19	12	1st	1 8 23 40 45
2024-07-07	5	1st	1 12 13 25 37
2024-07-02	20	1st	1 3 22 35 43
2024-06-12	2	1st	1 13 25 33 40
2024-06-10	7	1st	1 7 30 36 41
2024-06-03	2	1st	1 4 8 9 12
2024-06-01	6	1st	1 19 38 39 42
2024-05-26	6	1st	1 12 26 35 36
2024-05-20	10	1st	1 8 13 14 37
2024-05-10	9	1st	1 8 10 16 39
2024-05-01	33	1st	1 3 25 28 32
2024-03-29	5	1st	1 2 8 27 40
2024-03-24	17	1st	1 6 23 26 29
2024-03-07	11	1st	1 13 21 27 37
2024-02-25	1	1st	1 7 25 32 39
2024-02-24	7	1st	1 5 7 27 32
2024-02-17	2	1st	1 24 28 29 33
2024-02-15	4	1st	1 6 15 23 32
2024-02-11	10	1st	1 5 11 26 45
2024-02-01	11	1st	1 20 35 36 40
2024-01-21	5	1st	1 6 9 18 37
2024-01-16	29	1st	1 12 21 31 45
2023-12-17	4	1st	1 11 23 31 32
2023-12-13	27	1st	1 12 29 40 41
2023-11-16	3	1st	1 18 19 33 43
2023-11-13	10	1st	1 11 14 27 40
2023-11-03	9	1st	1 17 18 23 44
2023-10-25	3	1st	1 3 20 29 32
2023-10-22	11	1st	1 13 35 42 43
2023-10-11	6	1st	1 13 14 23 34
2023-10-05	3	1st	1 6 16 25 27
2023-10-02	15	1st	1 4 7 11 27
2023-09-17	1	1st	1 11 14 35 36
2023-09-16	9	1st	1 5 8 15 31
2023-09-07	8	1st	1 12 14 16 42
2023-08-30	2	1st	1 8 10 34 42
2023-08-28	50	1st	1 26 28 31 44
2023-07-09	1	1st	1 5 20 32 33
2023-07-08	1	1st	1 6 13 18 27
2023-07-07	2	1st	1 5 24 26 30
2023-07-05	14	1st	1 6 16 23 27
2023-06-21	9	1st	1 2 10 11 40
2023-06-12	12	1st	1 10 24 26 36
2023-05-31	3	1st	1 5 33 35 37
2023-05-28	6	1st	1 2 23 25 37
2023-05-22	15	1st	1 12 14 16 19
2023-05-07	26	1st	1 12 17 33 34
2023-04-11	3	1st	1 29 35 40 44
2023-04-08	7	1st	1 6 19 33 34
2023-04-01	6	1st	1 4 17 20 37
2023-03-26	20	1st	1 5 7 8 17
2023-03-06	2	1st	1 9 15 23 42
2023-03-04	19	1st	1 9 18 32 34
2023-02-13	13	1st	1 3 5 9 28
2023-01-31	1	1st	1 21 28 38 45
2023-01-30	20	1st	1 3 13 28 38
2023-01-10	5	1st	1 11 24 31 40
2023-01-05	19	1st	1 10 17 26 39
2022-12-16	3	1st	1 5 7 29 35
2022-12-13	19	1st	1 20 27 43 45
2022-11-24	23	1st	1 10 32 34 44
2022-11-01	4	1st	1 8 23 33 36
2022-10-28	5	1st	1 8 18 21 27
2022-10-23	9	1st	1 4 5 6 30
2022-10-14	2	1st	1 20 29 32 45
2022-10-12	1	1st	1 11 24 35 44
2022-10-11	9	1st	1 9 12 17 39
2022-10-02	1	1st	1 23 28 38 41
2022-10-01	5	1st	1 5 14 28 44
2022-09-26	4	1st	1 5 36 38 45
2022-09-22	2	1st	1 5 15 18 21
2022-09-20	2	1st	1 3 14 20 31
2022-09-18	12	1st	1 3 6 9 26
2022-09-06	15	1st	1 3 7 13 35
2022-08-22	3	1st	1 9 11 18 41
2022-08-19	17	1st	1 16 20 36 45
2022-08-02	1	1st	1 13 15 19 35
2022-08-01	8	1st	1 23 24 35 38
2022-07-24	1	1st	1 21 27 36 45
2022-07-23	5	1st	1 5 12 14 19
2022-07-18	16	1st	1 9 10 39 43
2022-07-02	19	1st	1 5 19 32 34
2022-06-13	5	1st	1 19 21 43 45
2022-06-08	9	1st	1 30 31 35 41
2022-05-30	2	1st	1 4 11 19 38
2022-05-28	5	1st	1 9 27 33 45
2022-05-23	2	1st	1 3 4 20 34
2022-05-21	2	1st	1 11 22 24 28
2022-05-19	2	1st	1 5 6 10 22
2022-05-17	2	1st	1 11 14 16 19
2022-05-15	23	1st	1 13 25 28 38
2022-04-22	52	1st	1 4 18 33 41
2022-03-01	3	1st	1 5 6 28 43
2022-02-26	4	1st	1 22 30 33 41
2022-02-22	11	1st	1 2 21 31 37
2022-02-11	1	1st	1 5 23 30 36
2022-02-10	9	1st	1 17 32 36 39
2022-02-01	8	1st	1 24 31 38 45
2022-01-24	1	1st	1 10 22 24 33
2022-01-23	14	1st	1 7 25 27 38
2022-01-09	7	1st	1 4 13 27 41
2022-01-02	2	1st	1 2 13 37 43
2021-12-31	4	1st	1 12 15 32 44
2021-12-27	4	1st	1 2 4 6 7
2021-12-22	8	1st	1 24 32 38 40
2021-12-14	10	1st	1 11 19 30 32
2021-12-04	5	1st	1 21 26 38 44
2021-11-29	5	1st	1 22 27 29 45
2021-11-24	23	1st	1 2 19 20 26
2021-11-01	2	1st	1 3 8 21 26
2021-10-30	10	1st	1 12 30 31 43
2021-10-20	7	1st	1 2 28 32 37
2021-10-13	3	1st	1 5 17 26 40
2021-10-10	2	1st	1 4 10 18 43
2021-10-08	2	1st	1 4 5 25 36
2021-10-06	8	1st	1 7 19 28 32
2021-09-28	13	1st	1 15 16 30 36
2021-09-15	13	1st	1 3 19 21 42
2021-09-02	4	1st	1 3 8 14 17
2021-08-29	22	1st	1 27 32 36 38
2021-08-07	26	1st	1 2 14 24 33
2021-07-12	5	1st	1 3 10 13 24
2021-07-07	1	1st	1 31 33 34 40
2021-07-06	9	1st	1 5 8 17 26
2021-06-27	23	1st	1 8 9 17 34
2021-06-04	2	1st	1 3 7 15 42
2021-06-02	18	1st	1 4 5 16 41
2021-05-15	8	1st	1 2 12 30 43
2021-05-07	4	1st	1 17 21 32 33
2021-05-03	2	1st	1 15 25 31 41
2021-05-01	4	1st	1 2 15 28 31
2021-04-27	29	1st	1 5 9 20 22
2021-03-29	30	1st	1 10 24 26 35
2021-02-27	32	1st	1 7 25 33 39
2021-01-26	2	1st	1 10 22 27 31
2021-01-24	4	1st	1 3 17 27 34
2021-01-20	22	1st	1 18 20 27 40
2020-12-29	5	1st	1 3 8 24 39
2020-12-23	5	1st	1 7 15 17 35
2020-12-18	8	1st	1 16 17 34 37
2020-12-10	5	1st	1 11 22 38 44
2020-12-05	4	1st	1 18 37 44 45
2020-12-01	5	1st	1 12 18 35 44
2020-11-26	16	1st	1 6 14 18 40
2020-11-10	3	1st	1 2 24 26 40
2020-11-07	2	1st	1 17 23 25 38
2020-11-05	10	1st	1 10 24 32 33
2020-10-26	5	1st	1 12 15 32 35
2020-10-21	5	1st	1 5 8 18 41
2020-10-16	1	1st	1 2 23 28 44
2020-10-15	1	1st	1 6 22 37 40
2020-10-14	13	1st	1 24 27 29 42
2020-10-01	14	1st	1 15 35 40 44
2020-09-17	3	1st	1 12 22 25 30
2020-09-14	25	1st	1 3 4 35 38
2020-08-20	7	1st	1 2 14 37 44
2020-08-13	3	1st	1 12 28 29 31
2020-08-10	10	1st	1 4 11 23 26
2020-07-31	14	1st	1 10 21 23 29
2020-07-17	—	1st	1 9 26 27 32