Number 10

In Cash 5 under the 5/45 · since Oct 2023 rules — 1,089 draws, 5 from 1–45.

113times drawn · chance expected 121 −0.77σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 62% for any number

9.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.0

42longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

10 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 113 times in 1,089 draws against 121.0 expected, −0.77σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 10, draw by draw

Drawn 113 times in 1,089 draws · average wait 9.6 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 5 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 10 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 smallest39 · chance 43.6
2nd smallest53 · chance 49.0
3rd smallest21 · chance 17.8
4th smallest0 · chance 2.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

26 9 18 5 12 31

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 10 is picked about 1.41× as often as an indifferent choice — 5th most popular of 45. 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 10 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-06	8	1st	10 11 18 21 35
2026-09-28	11	2nd	4 10 15 20 23
2026-09-17	17	2nd	4 10 18 19 25
2026-08-31	4	2nd	1 10 12 16

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: 10 is drawn with probability 5/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-01-21	13	3rd	2 5 10 18 40
2026-01-08	12	1st	10 24 38 42 43
2025-12-27	23	2nd	9 10 14 37 42
2025-12-04	1	1st	10 14 23 37 44
2025-12-03	3	2nd	9 10 14 16 30
2025-11-30	4	3rd	1 9 10 23 28
2025-11-26	14	2nd	1 10 12 44 45
2025-11-12	2	1st	10 25 31 32 44
2025-11-10	18	3rd	2 9 10 15 39
2025-10-23	1	2nd	6 10 11 12 17
2025-10-22	9	3rd	5 9 10 19 26
2025-10-13	24	2nd	5 10 23 29 30
2025-09-19	22	2nd	8 10 14 37 41
2025-08-28	3	1st	10 12 17 21 39
2025-08-25	9	1st	10 14 26 33 35
2025-08-16	10	1st	10 16 17 39 44
2025-08-06	18	2nd	9 10 16 19 26
2025-07-19	16	1st	10 26 38 41 44
2025-07-03	8	1st	10 16 31 37 41
2025-06-25	8	3rd	5 9 10 28 29
2025-06-17	10	1st	10 17 19 33 45
2025-06-07	5	1st	10 23 35 38 39
2025-06-02	6	2nd	8 10 14 24 42
2025-05-27	5	2nd	4 10 26 27 32
2025-05-22	14	2nd	2 10 29 43 44
2025-05-08	11	2nd	3 10 19 26 43
2025-04-27	7	3rd	2 5 10 13 19
2025-04-20	24	2nd	8 10 13 21 26
2025-03-27	17	2nd	2 10 15 32 45
2025-03-10	2	2nd	8 10 24 27 38
2025-03-08	6	2nd	1 10 30 34 35
2025-03-02	12	2nd	8 10 31 32 37
2025-02-18	4	3rd	2 5 10 36 44
2025-02-14	11	1st	10 28 29 33 36
2025-02-03	9	2nd	5 10 15 21 35
2025-01-25	7	2nd	8 10 15 31 34
2025-01-18	11	1st	10 12 23 37 38
2025-01-07	17	2nd	5 10 19 23 31
2024-12-21	16	1st	10 15 24 32 40
2024-12-05	6	2nd	5 10 32 33 38
2024-11-29	4	3rd	7 8 10 24 40
2024-11-25	5	1st	10 11 22 34 35
2024-11-20	1	3rd	1 7 10 25 43
2024-11-19	10	2nd	4 10 15 17 21
2024-11-09	2	3rd	7 9 10 22 39
2024-11-07	1	1st	10 21 23 25 30
2024-11-06	2	3rd	4 9 10 18 45
2024-11-04	9	1st	10 18 24 27 30
2024-10-26	8	1st	10 24 35 36 39
2024-10-18	2	3rd	5 6 10 33 41
2024-10-16	3	1st	10 18 20 33 40
2024-10-13	2	3rd	2 5 10 24 35
2024-10-11	7	1st	10 11 15 24 33
2024-10-04	6	1st	10 14 26 29 43
2024-09-28	2	3rd	4 6 10 14 33
2024-09-26	14	2nd	8 10 16 40 45
2024-09-12	16	1st	10 26 32 38 39
2024-08-27	2	1st	10 22 27 28 41
2024-08-25	8	2nd	5 10 11 35 39
2024-08-17	15	1st	10 15 31 36 43
2024-08-02	29	3rd	5 7 10 17 33
2024-07-04	22	2nd	9 10 12 18 21
2024-06-12	2	1st	10 14 15 16 26
2024-06-10	18	2nd	9 10 17 41 42
2024-05-23	13	1st	10 19 20 38 41
2024-05-10	3	3rd	5 7 10 34 45
2024-05-07	11	2nd	2 10 12 16 31
2024-04-26	18	2nd	4 10 12 15 38
2024-04-08	7	2nd	4 10 13 16 24
2024-04-01	5	2nd	2 10 23 26 40
2024-03-27	11	2nd	3 10 15 23 24
2024-03-16	3	1st	10 21 24 28 31
2024-03-13	40	2nd	9 10 25 28 43
2024-02-02	13	2nd	8 10 32 36 44
2024-01-20	3	1st	10 13 14 36 37
2024-01-17	1	1st	10 22 28 31 40
2024-01-16	1	3rd	3 8 10 30 39
2024-01-15	8	2nd	9 10 33 38 44
2024-01-07	1	2nd	1 10 18 25 26
2024-01-06	1	1st	10 20 27 31 33
2024-01-05	9	1st	10 11 25 36 45
2023-12-27	4	2nd	7 10 11 26 39
2023-12-23	3	2nd	1 10 30 31 34
2023-12-20	2	2nd	3 10 22 30 34
2023-12-18	7	3rd	3 8 10 12 26
2023-12-11	37	2nd	7 10 12 18 22
2023-11-04	6	2nd	7 10 19 26 43
2023-10-29	4	3rd	2 4 10 25 29
2023-10-25	—	2nd	9 10 31 37 40