Number 5

In New York Lotto under the 6/59 + 1/59 · since Oct 2010 rules — 1,668 draws, 6 from 1–59.

173times drawn · chance expected 170 +0.27σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 28% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

56longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 173 times in 1,668 draws against 169.6 expected, +0.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 22 times, counted separately.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 173 times in 1,668 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 56 · waiting 13 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 smallest126 · chance 119.4
2nd smallest44 · chance 47.8
3rd smallest3 · chance 5.6
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
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 14.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 28 27 13 21 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 58 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 59. 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
2026-08-26	28	1st	5 10 14 15 30 42
2026-05-20	9	1st	5 15 20 27 46 53
2026-04-18	35	1st	5 14 15 21 45 49
2025-12-17

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 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-05-08	12	2nd	4 5 12 23 39 57
2024-03-27	17	1st	5 7 24 32 45 58
2024-01-27	3	2nd	2 5 14 24 27 30
2024-01-17	56	1st	5 13 31 35 36 37
2023-07-05	3	1st	5 6 28 31 32 43
2023-06-24	13	1st	5 8 11 30 34 49
2023-05-10	13	2nd	4 5 6 43 47 57
2023-03-25	4	1st	5 12 16 37 41 53
2023-03-11	9	1st	5 21 37 43 45 55
2023-02-08	3	2nd	3 5 13 16 29 37
2023-01-28	3	1st	5 16 22 24 26 54
2023-01-18	1	1st	5 9 21 25 35 42
2023-01-14	10	1st	5 33 36 39 40 57
2022-12-10	1	1st	5 18 19 20 30 45
2022-12-07	3	1st	5 27 29 44 53 57
2022-11-26	54	1st	5 18 24 27 39 46
2022-05-21	5	1st	5 14 31 38 48 56
2022-05-04	1	2nd	1 5 22 23 45 49
2022-04-30	1	1st	5 17 30 35 41 56
2022-04-27	4	1st	5 8 30 44 51 55
2022-04-13	2	1st	5 7 8 32 41 50
2022-04-06	5	2nd	1 5 16 17 21 23
2022-03-19	33	1st	5 6 17 18 19 35
2021-11-24	2	1st	5 10 14 20 23 28
2021-11-17	21	1st	5 13 25 27 56 58
2021-09-04	8	1st	5 22 26 30 43 50
2021-08-07	10	1st	5 14 19 28 50 53
2021-07-03	20	1st	5 21 31 45 49 54
2021-04-24	1	1st	5 27 40 46 49 50
2021-04-21	5	1st	5 19 28 31 32 52
2021-04-03	14	2nd	4 5 18 35 51 52
2021-02-13	20	1st	5 30 37 44 49 54
2020-12-05	10	1st	5 16 37 49 55 57
2020-10-31	28	1st	5 15 19 21 37 57
2020-07-25	4	1st	5 9 11 30 41 57
2020-07-11	5	2nd	3 5 9 11 29 47
2020-06-24	30	1st	5 7 12 14 19 27
2020-03-11	8	1st	5 23 26 34 49 58
2020-02-12	5	1st	5 24 28 42 44 57
2020-01-25	19	1st	5 21 23 29 36 44
2019-11-20	4	3rd	3 4 5 26 36 48
2019-11-06	20	2nd	4 5 12 43 44 59
2019-08-28	9	2nd	1 5 6 7 16 48
2019-07-27	6	1st	5 7 19 25 26 47
2019-07-06	8	2nd	4 5 27 31 43 47
2019-06-08	27	1st	5 6 14 37 47 52
2019-03-06	15	1st	5 8 11 14 32 36
2019-01-12	9	1st	5 21 30 48 56 57
2018-12-12	3	1st	5 12 16 28 33 42
2018-12-01	5	1st	5 6 12 20 50 54
2018-11-14	5	1st	5 15 26 39 45 49
2018-10-27	3	1st	5 13 26 28 42 51
2018-10-17	22	2nd	1 5 8 43 50 51
2018-08-01	31	1st	5 27 28 33 40 43
2018-04-14	2	1st	5 12 23 27 30 56
2018-04-07	2	2nd	2 5 10 23 31 53
2018-03-31	21	1st	5 18 36 37 41 57
2018-01-17	14	1st	5 8 22 31 36 50
2017-11-29	10	1st	5 14 15 16 31 52
2017-10-25	21	1st	5 9 19 29 38 40
2017-08-12	1	1st	5 19 26 41 44 50
2017-08-09	18	1st	5 12 14 42 52 55
2017-06-07	4	1st	5 8 13 19 28 53
2017-05-24	8	1st	5 8 16 26 34 49
2017-04-26	8	1st	5 21 24 31 32 55
2017-03-29	8	1st	5 20 25 44 50 53
2017-03-01	12	1st	5 7 8 13 25 28
2017-01-18	21	1st	5 14 27 32 33 46
2016-11-05	15	1st	5 11 15 23 26 42
2016-09-14	1	1st	5 17 18 32 37 56
2016-09-10	8	2nd	4 5 13 21 53 57
2016-08-13	9	2nd	1 5 13 26 35 53
2016-07-13	14	2nd	4 5 10 32 34 44
2016-05-25	5	1st	5 12 13 22 25 35
2016-05-07	9	1st	5 12 18 33 56 57
2016-04-06	15	2nd	3 5 10 50 54 57
2016-02-13	12	1st	5 11 15 33 39 40
2016-01-02	3	1st	5 11 28 32 34 35
2015-12-23	4	2nd	3 5 8 13 47 55
2015-12-09	1	2nd	4 5 12 21 32 41
2015-12-05	7	1st	5 7 13 17 38 42
2015-11-11	18	1st	5 8 9 17 28 48
2015-09-09	6	2nd	2 5 8 24 28 41
2015-08-19	5	1st	5 11 23 25 48 58
2015-08-01	4	1st	5 9 13 31 40 54
2015-07-18	11	1st	5 10 16 17 46 48
2015-06-10	6	1st	5 18 21 22 28 31
2015-05-20	4	1st	5 8 18 36 48 53
2015-05-06	1	1st	5 11 28 31 34 54
2015-05-02	4	1st	5 15 24 31 52 59
2015-04-18	11	1st	5 24 29 33 48 53
2015-03-11	2	2nd	3 5 28 34 37 53
2015-03-04	9	1st	5 26 34 36 44 57
2015-01-31	7	2nd	3 5 9 21 23 24
2015-01-07	11	1st	5 11 21 24 34 55
2014-11-29	22	1st	5 16 17 25 27 31
2014-09-13	2	2nd	4 5 10 11 44 47
2014-09-06	9	1st	5 7 45 48 54 59
2014-08-06	3	1st	5 17 31 37 44 55
2014-07-26	6	1st	5 11 19 24 52 54
2014-07-05	11	1st	5 9 23 34 44 59
2014-05-28	3	2nd	4 5 28 33 41 46
2014-05-17	28	2nd	4 5 19 21 23 29
2014-02-08	5	2nd	1 5 20 35 36 40
2014-01-22	13	1st	5 8 16 36 51 52
2013-12-07	4	1st	5 13 31 33 38 39
2013-11-23	4	2nd	3 5 9 15 27 29
2013-11-09	2	1st	5 6 24 25 28 33
2013-11-02	3	1st	5 16 17 37 51 57
2013-10-23	6	2nd	4 5 12 21 52 58
2013-10-02	2	2nd	1 5 13 35 51 52
2013-09-25	7	1st	5 11 16 27 28 59
2013-08-31	7	1st	5 8 18 25 34 55
2013-08-07	19	1st	5 6 9 13 34 50
2013-06-01	14	2nd	4 5 19 36 43 47
2013-04-13	6	3rd	1 2 5 8 45 48
2013-03-23	4	1st	5 26 27 31 38 49
2013-03-09	12	1st	5 23 26 27 30 53
2013-01-26	4	1st	5 14 22 28 30 31
2013-01-12	8	1st	5 25 36 44 47 49
2012-12-15	1	1st	5 15 33 39 43 52
2012-12-12	11	2nd	2 5 27 32 38 50
2012-11-03	3	1st	5 16 18 25 41 55
2012-10-24	2	1st	5 8 14 37 42 55
2012-10-17	9	2nd	2 5 7 27 28 53
2012-09-15	8	2nd	4 5 27 33 38 46
2012-08-18	1	1st	5 6 7 15 26 42
2012-08-15	4	1st	5 21 44 45 51 56
2012-08-01	8	2nd	1 5 7 32 55 56
2012-07-04	2	1st	5 14 28 35 50 53
2012-06-27	19	1st	5 6 14 44 52 54
2012-04-21	5	2nd	3 5 19 24 33 53
2012-04-04	3	1st	5 29 30 31 46 59
2012-03-24	4	1st	5 13 14 16 22 25
2012-03-10	39	1st	5 16 18 21 24 54
2011-10-26	3	2nd	1 5 22 25 35 45
2011-10-15	3	1st	5 18 21 43 48 49
2011-10-05	9	2nd	3 5 11 12 17 27
2011-09-03	1	1st	5 8 25 31 45 59
2011-08-31	2	1st	5 21 31 35 41 55
2011-08-24	6	1st	5 27 28 31 48 58
2011-08-03	1	1st	5 7 10 22 27 54
2011-07-30	26	1st	5 10 19 22 36 39
2011-04-30	15	1st	5 13 18 25 45 50
2011-03-09	2	1st	5 6 11 47 50 51
2011-03-02	4	2nd	1 5 40 44 56 57
2011-02-16	16	1st	5 15 18 40 42 47
2010-12-22	5	2nd	4 5 18 27 38 48
2010-12-04	—	1st	5 11 17 26 50 55