Number 7

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

126times drawn · chance expected 112 +1.43σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.4

40longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 126 times in 939 draws against 111.8 expected, +1.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 126 times in 939 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 4 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 7 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 smallest67 · chance 65.1
2nd smallest42 · chance 48.9
3rd smallest15 · chance 11.1
4th smallest2 · chance 0.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 12.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 6 33 28 11 30

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, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	7	2nd	1 7 20 25 31
2026-10-01	2	1st	7 14 24 37 42
2026-09-29	5	2nd	4 7 23 32 39
2026-09-24	8	2nd	6 7

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

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