Number 1

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 560 draws, 5 from 1–38.

80times drawn · chance expected 74 +0.79σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 28% for any number

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

37longest completed wait · 39% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 80 times in 560 draws against 73.7 expected, +0.79σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 11 times, counted separately.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 80 times in 560 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 10 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 smallest80 · chance 80.0
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 8.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 4 30 9 38 13

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 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 38. 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
2026-10-22	10	1st	1 3 4 8 38
2026-10-12	20	1st	1 6 9 10 27
2026-09-22	4	1st	1 13 15 29 30
2026-09-18	1	1st	1 18 22

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-10	14	1st	1 13 14 16 32
2026-04-26	5	1st	1 23 28 29 38
2026-04-21	3	1st	1 20 33 36 38
2026-04-18	2	1st	1 2 13 32 34
2026-04-16	2	1st	1 7 26 28 32
2026-04-14	3	1st	1 10 12 14 16
2026-04-11	1	1st	1 6 19 25 31
2026-04-10	11	1st	1 6 20 30 35
2026-03-30	7	1st	1 9 13 28 36
2026-03-23	2	1st	1 12 27 28 31
2026-03-21	14	1st	1 18 27 29 36
2026-03-07	9	1st	1 9 21 28 38
2026-02-26	4	1st	1 4 27 30 31
2026-02-22	4	1st	1 23 25 34 38
2026-02-18	3	1st	1 13 17 31 33
2026-02-15	16	1st	1 14 16 33 34
2026-01-30	1	1st	1 7 15 16 21
2026-01-29	3	1st	1 3 16 18 22
2026-01-26	15	1st	1 16 27 29 32
2026-01-11	2	1st	1 5 8 10 34
2026-01-09	1	1st	1 7 16 26 36
2026-01-08	6	1st	1 7 12 30 35
2026-01-02	5	1st	1 3 19 26 37
2025-12-28	25	1st	1 13 20 24 34
2025-12-03	2	1st	1 6 7 10 27
2025-12-01	10	1st	1 8 18 19 22
2025-11-21	5	1st	1 2 4 17 31
2025-11-16	3	1st	1 4 9 12 25
2025-11-13	20	1st	1 2 13 23 26
2025-10-24	8	1st	1 6 11 23 33
2025-10-16	3	1st	1 23 25 28 37
2025-10-13	8	1st	1 5 21 30 31
2025-10-05	11	1st	1 3 11 17 21
2025-09-24	3	1st	1 4 6 15 28
2025-09-21	37	1st	1 15 25 26 36
2025-08-15	1	1st	1 4 9 11 34
2025-08-14	6	1st	1 8 18 20 21
2025-08-08	3	1st	1 4 12 18 37
2025-08-05	3	1st	1 2 18 22 33
2025-08-02	3	1st	1 8 17 27 29
2025-07-30	10	1st	1 13 30 32 38
2025-07-20	9	1st	1 4 6 24 31
2025-07-11	8	1st	1 7 11 21 26
2025-07-03	6	1st	1 3 18 25 30
2025-06-27	5	1st	1 3 14 15 16
2025-06-22	8	1st	1 5 12 18 30
2025-06-14	7	1st	1 6 25 29 38
2025-06-07	10	1st	1 3 9 23 32
2025-05-28	6	1st	1 4 5 21 23
2025-05-22	13	1st	1 6 18 37 38
2025-05-09	2	1st	1 17 27 32 37
2025-05-07	4	1st	1 21 29 30 38
2025-05-03	2	1st	1 8 31 32 36
2025-05-01	2	1st	1 2 5 8 9
2025-04-29	8	1st	1 11 28 30 35
2025-04-21	—	1st	1 5 6 19 37