Number 29

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 2/10 · since Sep 2025 rules — 152 draws, 5 from 1–35.

17times drawn · chance expected 22 −1.09σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 29% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

43longest completed wait · 2% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 152 draws against 21.7 expected, −1.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 152 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 43 · waiting 9 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 29 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.2
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.1
4th smallest5 · chance 7.2
5th smallest9 · chance 7.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 20 22 23 2 7

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 5 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 29 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 35. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-31	8	4th	13 20 22 29 35
2026-08-12	7	3rd	2 13 29 31 33
2026-07-27	7	3rd	20 28 29 30 32
2026-07-10	5	5th	6 18 23

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: 29 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.