Number 4

In Palmetto Cash 5 under the 5/42 · since Mar 2024 rules — 939 draws, 5 from 1–42.

100times drawn · chance expected 112 −1.19σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

9.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.4

47longest completed wait · 25% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 100 times in 939 draws against 111.8 expected, −1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 100 times in 939 draws · average wait 9.2 draws · longest completed wait 47 · 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 4 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 smallest65 · chance 72.9
2nd smallest32 · chance 25.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.1
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 9.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

34 3 32 28 38 33

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 42. 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 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-29	23	1st	4 7 23 32 39
2026-09-06	12	1st	4 9 11 15 37
2026-08-25	29	2nd	2 4 13 20 39
2026-07-27	1	1st	4 26

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: 4 is drawn with probability 5/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-03-10	25	1st	4 5 6 7 11
2026-02-13	29	1st	4 11 20 21 30
2026-01-15	5	1st	4 9 25 29 34
2026-01-10	1	2nd	2 4 31 38 40
2026-01-09	23	1st	4 11 26 33 37
2025-12-17	2	1st	4 13 19 23 37
2025-12-15	12	1st	4 7 16 25 35
2025-12-03	4	1st	4 14 28 39 40
2025-11-29	7	1st	4 15 38 39 42
2025-11-22	8	2nd	1 4 8 33 36
2025-11-14	3	2nd	1 4 26 28 32
2025-11-11	10	1st	4 19 23 38 42
2025-11-01	11	1st	4 16 17 34 38
2025-10-21	4	1st	4 20 30 35 37
2025-10-17	9	3rd	1 2 4 31 42
2025-10-08	19	2nd	2 4 23 27 32
2025-09-19	3	1st	4 16 18 40 41
2025-09-16	1	2nd	2 4 9 20 39
2025-09-15	1	1st	4 17 20 32 37
2025-09-14	22	1st	4 19 28 29 36
2025-08-23	10	1st	4 10 13 31 42
2025-08-13	10	3rd	1 3 4 22 40
2025-08-03	2	2nd	1 4 13 23 30
2025-08-01	1	1st	4 22 32 40 41
2025-07-31	2	1st	4 12 23 25 37
2025-07-29	2	2nd	3 4 13 16 33
2025-07-27	16	1st	4 5 29 33 42
2025-07-11	9	2nd	1 4 13 16 36
2025-07-02	10	1st	4 33 36 39 42
2025-06-22	16	1st	4 7 14 28 38
2025-06-06	7	2nd	3 4 28 32 34
2025-05-30	2	2nd	3 4 7 30 34
2025-05-28	7	2nd	3 4 18 34 38
2025-05-21	2	2nd	3 4 29 32 38
2025-05-19	1	1st	4 7 10 20 30
2025-05-18	15	1st	4 7 13 19 38
2025-05-03	1	1st	4 6 18 28 40
2025-05-02	28	2nd	3 4 6 8 35
2025-04-04	13	1st	4 14 21 22 37
2025-03-22	7	1st	4 13 19 27 39
2025-03-15	11	2nd	1 4 11 14 27
2025-03-04	8	1st	4 10 11 27 31
2025-02-24	3	1st	4 11 25 34 35
2025-02-21	15	1st	4 16 31 33 38
2025-02-06	16	2nd	2 4 5 12 32
2025-01-21	47	2nd	2 4 9 38 39
2024-12-05	4	1st	4 6 16 28 29
2024-12-01	3	1st	4 21 29 34 41
2024-11-28	3	1st	4 24 26 32 42
2024-11-25	10	1st	4 13 27 36 37
2024-11-15	26	1st	4 11 14 37 39
2024-10-20	10	1st	4 18 30 32 40
2024-10-10	1	1st	4 12 25 27 33
2024-10-09	7	1st	4 18 28 31 32
2024-10-02	7	2nd	2 4 17 22 41
2024-09-25	8	1st	4 5 30 34 39
2024-09-17	2	2nd	3 4 15 16 17
2024-09-15	2	1st	4 14 20 32 33
2024-09-13	35	3rd	1 2 4 8 16
2024-08-09	5	1st	4 20 34 39 42
2024-08-04	13	2nd	3 4 9 30 39
2024-07-22	7	2nd	3 4 9 26 28
2024-07-15	11	1st	4 11 28 33 37
2024-07-04	8	1st	4 13 19 32 34
2024-06-26	7	1st	4 21 27 28 38
2024-06-19	10	2nd	3 4 5 28 36
2024-06-09	15	2nd	1 4 19 23 40
2024-05-25	8	1st	4 10 14 22 38
2024-05-17	2	1st	4 6 13 31 33
2024-05-15	11	1st	4 9 34 36 40
2024-05-04	2	1st	4 21 30 34 40
2024-05-02	13	2nd	3 4 21 25 32
2024-04-19	10	1st	4 24 33 35 36
2024-04-09	6	1st	4 14 15 17 34
2024-04-03	2	2nd	2 4 22 37 41
2024-04-01	—	1st	4 10 17 19 36