Number 1

In Hit 5 under the 5/42 · since Sep 2020 rules — 2,227 draws, 5 from 1–42.

275times drawn · chance expected 265 +0.65σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.4

34longest completed wait · 99% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 275 times in 2,227 draws against 265.1 expected, +0.65σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 275 times in 2,227 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 7 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 smallest275 · chance 275.0
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 26.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 29 7 11 23 12

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, 1 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 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-04	14	1st	1 8 10 20 32
2026-09-20	10	1st	1 7 8 15 29
2026-09-10	6	1st	1 14 15 29 32
2026-09-04	5	1st	1 16 17 20

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 5/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-05	11	1st	1 23 27 28 33
2026-03-25	8	1st	1 8 20 28 39
2026-03-17	1	1st	1 3 24 33 38
2026-03-16	26	1st	1 10 19 21 34
2026-02-18	7	1st	1 8 16 28 39
2026-02-11	15	1st	1 9 22 25 42
2026-01-27	21	1st	1 3 7 21 27
2026-01-06	4	1st	1 16 27 31 39
2026-01-02	24	1st	1 17 21 29 34
2025-12-09	21	1st	1 6 18 23 25
2025-11-18	7	1st	1 6 9 28 37
2025-11-11	1	1st	1 16 27 33 40
2025-11-10	32	1st	1 14 18 31 39
2025-10-09	9	1st	1 12 27 32 37
2025-09-30	10	1st	1 3 5 16 38
2025-09-20	6	1st	1 7 35 38 41
2025-09-14	2	1st	1 6 12 37 40
2025-09-12	11	1st	1 9 11 27 33
2025-09-01	1	1st	1 17 19 24 31
2025-08-31	12	1st	1 20 31 36 41
2025-08-19	3	1st	1 22 28 35 40
2025-08-16	12	1st	1 6 11 14 23
2025-08-04	18	1st	1 18 27 34 41
2025-07-17	7	1st	1 7 15 22 41
2025-07-10	8	1st	1 3 21 34 40
2025-07-02	4	1st	1 5 11 12 27
2025-06-28	11	1st	1 9 12 13 26
2025-06-17	9	1st	1 7 29 35 39
2025-06-08	2	1st	1 11 24 25 39
2025-06-06	13	1st	1 6 11 12 17
2025-05-24	16	1st	1 12 14 31 32
2025-05-08	5	1st	1 9 11 22 28
2025-05-03	2	1st	1 9 10 25 38
2025-05-01	10	1st	1 6 11 35 37
2025-04-21	31	1st	1 5 13 23 41
2025-03-21	10	1st	1 8 14 29 41
2025-03-11	1	1st	1 3 6 7 25
2025-03-10	4	1st	1 4 12 14 19
2025-03-06	17	1st	1 3 5 6 19
2025-02-17	26	1st	1 2 17 20 39
2025-01-22	12	1st	1 3 7 17 40
2025-01-10	5	1st	1 9 26 28 30
2025-01-05	3	1st	1 24 25 31 34
2025-01-02	4	1st	1 24 30 32 33
2024-12-29	1	1st	1 5 15 29 34
2024-12-28	10	1st	1 6 8 22 42
2024-12-18	10	1st	1 14 20 29 32
2024-12-08	9	1st	1 27 28 38 42
2024-11-29	24	1st	1 17 23 24 33
2024-11-05	11	1st	1 15 16 20 39
2024-10-25	12	1st	1 17 20 22 23
2024-10-13	5	1st	1 3 24 25 38
2024-10-08	4	1st	1 7 8 13 15
2024-10-04	2	1st	1 7 12 29 40
2024-10-02	1	1st	1 3 14 20 27
2024-10-01	7	1st	1 12 18 21 23
2024-09-24	1	1st	1 3 29 35 42
2024-09-23	3	1st	1 8 10 16 28
2024-09-20	17	1st	1 21 23 28 40
2024-09-03	4	1st	1 3 10 22 25
2024-08-30	6	1st	1 11 34 38 42
2024-08-24	6	1st	1 3 13 30 35
2024-08-18	1	1st	1 5 7 13 35
2024-08-17	4	1st	1 2 14 21 22
2024-08-13	3	1st	1 5 33 38 42
2024-08-10	9	1st	1 14 24 27 42
2024-08-01	6	1st	1 3 8 39 41
2024-07-26	9	1st	1 2 19 31 35
2024-07-17	6	1st	1 6 11 29 31
2024-07-11	14	1st	1 2 25 34 39
2024-06-27	1	1st	1 12 19 29 40
2024-06-26	11	1st	1 8 22 24 35
2024-06-15	1	1st	1 9 15 20 42
2024-06-14	6	1st	1 7 12 18 30
2024-06-08	7	1st	1 3 6 26 41
2024-06-01	2	1st	1 22 34 36 40
2024-05-30	8	1st	1 6 9 10 31
2024-05-22	17	1st	1 2 7 17 35
2024-05-05	1	1st	1 4 10 21 24
2024-05-04	2	1st	1 6 13 14 39
2024-05-02	11	1st	1 29 34 36 40
2024-04-21	25	1st	1 4 8 15 21
2024-03-27	10	1st	1 18 29 33 39
2024-03-17	5	1st	1 5 11 18 25
2024-03-12	3	1st	1 2 15 30 31
2024-03-09	14	1st	1 9 10 11 31
2024-02-24	2	1st	1 4 11 19 37
2024-02-22	1	1st	1 32 38 39 41
2024-02-21	1	1st	1 6 22 29 37
2024-02-20	7	1st	1 4 5 30 31
2024-02-13	3	1st	1 23 25 32 36
2024-02-10	16	1st	1 24 26 27 38
2024-01-25	18	1st	1 13 20 23 32
2024-01-07	2	1st	1 13 17 23 38
2024-01-05	1	1st	1 3 17 32 38
2024-01-04	7	1st	1 16 21 31 33
2023-12-28	7	1st	1 17 21 37 39
2023-12-21	18	1st	1 11 19 25 34
2023-12-03	3	1st	1 5 21 22 32
2023-11-30	26	1st	1 8 35 36 41
2023-11-04	2	1st	1 3 26 39 40
2023-11-02	10	1st	1 2 8 12 31
2023-10-23	7	1st	1 8 24 26 35
2023-10-16	10	1st	1 11 12 16 34
2023-10-06	1	1st	1 2 10 17 37
2023-10-05	26	1st	1 17 18 20 38
2023-09-09	5	1st	1 14 16 38 41
2023-09-04	9	1st	1 7 13 23 29
2023-08-26	3	1st	1 5 12 18 26
2023-08-23	2	1st	1 18 19 32 35
2023-08-21	9	1st	1 24 28 30 37
2023-08-12	8	1st	1 9 11 23 27
2023-08-04	1	1st	1 8 13 32 40
2023-08-03	4	1st	1 13 21 22 40
2023-07-30	6	1st	1 2 16 38 40
2023-07-24	4	1st	1 15 19 23 32
2023-07-20	6	1st	1 5 27 36 40
2023-07-14	3	1st	1 10 24 34 41
2023-07-11	34	1st	1 6 21 23 27
2023-06-07	5	1st	1 3 8 22 40
2023-06-02	4	1st	1 27 28 34 36
2023-05-29	2	1st	1 7 16 22 26
2023-05-27	18	1st	1 9 27 32 38
2023-05-09	6	1st	1 3 8 28 40
2023-05-03	5	1st	1 2 12 29 30
2023-04-28	9	1st	1 12 17 31 39
2023-04-19	11	1st	1 7 11 20 40
2023-04-08	1	1st	1 7 8 15 17
2023-04-07	13	1st	1 19 28 31 37
2023-03-25	4	1st	1 9 23 29 36
2023-03-21	9	1st	1 9 15 37 41
2023-03-12	5	1st	1 8 16 22 31
2023-03-07	3	1st	1 4 6 7 36
2023-03-04	9	1st	1 4 18 36 42
2023-02-23	4	1st	1 4 20 21 40
2023-02-19	6	1st	1 7 13 24 41
2023-02-13	1	1st	1 6 10 13 35
2023-02-12	24	1st	1 3 6 7 13
2023-01-19	7	1st	1 16 17 22 33
2023-01-12	4	1st	1 6 9 15 28
2023-01-08	4	1st	1 2 4 22 27
2023-01-04	1	1st	1 19 22 37 38
2023-01-03	8	1st	1 13 24 32 38
2022-12-26	8	1st	1 8 19 25 42
2022-12-18	11	1st	1 17 19 24 32
2022-12-07	7	1st	1 20 29 34 40
2022-11-30	7	1st	1 4 19 21 34
2022-11-23	2	1st	1 4 13 29 33
2022-11-21	3	1st	1 2 18 23 36
2022-11-18	14	1st	1 7 26 34 39
2022-11-04	14	1st	1 18 34 35 38
2022-10-21	12	1st	1 21 26 32 41
2022-10-09	5	1st	1 3 19 34 36
2022-10-04	6	1st	1 12 17 28 38
2022-09-28	7	1st	1 7 11 15 28
2022-09-21	2	1st	1 25 29 39 41
2022-09-19	13	1st	1 7 17 22 40
2022-09-06	2	1st	1 8 15 18 29
2022-09-04	6	1st	1 20 32 35 41
2022-08-29	1	1st	1 7 10 20 27
2022-08-28	10	1st	1 17 24 29 31
2022-08-18	5	1st	1 5 33 34 36
2022-08-13	1	1st	1 2 13 22 30
2022-08-12	2	1st	1 2 7 10 34
2022-08-10	3	1st	1 6 20 29 39
2022-08-07	3	1st	1 7 19 29 42
2022-08-04	15	1st	1 12 20 26 35
2022-07-20	2	1st	1 5 38 40 41
2022-07-18	11	1st	1 10 21 37 38
2022-07-07	8	1st	1 11 14 20 28
2022-06-29	5	1st	1 3 13 32 38
2022-06-24	1	1st	1 2 12 16 20
2022-06-23	17	1st	1 3 10 27 28
2022-06-06	9	1st	1 7 10 12 20
2022-05-28	5	1st	1 8 23 30 38
2022-05-23	17	1st	1 14 35 38 39
2022-05-06	20	1st	1 20 22 36 41
2022-04-16	1	1st	1 4 5 6 37
2022-04-15	17	1st	1 13 14 29 32
2022-03-29	5	1st	1 6 9 27 29
2022-03-24	8	1st	1 16 33 36 42
2022-03-16	7	1st	1 4 20 31 38
2022-03-09	3	1st	1 10 22 34 37
2022-03-06	1	1st	1 5 6 33 40
2022-03-05	2	1st	1 11 23 25 29
2022-03-03	4	1st	1 19 23 40 42
2022-02-27	6	1st	1 5 9 26 39
2022-02-21	2	1st	1 4 10 22 26
2022-02-19	4	1st	1 8 19 25 41
2022-02-15	2	1st	1 7 13 21 27
2022-02-13	3	1st	1 4 11 12 19
2022-02-10	1	1st	1 5 15 25 29
2022-02-09	1	1st	1 2 15 27 29
2022-02-08	26	1st	1 13 16 31 42
2022-01-13	5	1st	1 9 15 23 24
2022-01-08	5	1st	1 9 15 23 42
2022-01-03	10	1st	1 3 11 16 39
2021-12-24	5	1st	1 6 25 32 37
2021-12-19	25	1st	1 4 9 21 29
2021-11-24	7	1st	1 2 4 18 42
2021-11-17	3	1st	1 29 34 39 42
2021-11-14	6	1st	1 4 16 17 28
2021-11-08	1	1st	1 6 7 18 32
2021-11-07	28	1st	1 12 13 19 30
2021-10-10	24	1st	1 2 16 17 36
2021-09-16	8	1st	1 11 27 29 40
2021-09-08	4	1st	1 4 12 18 23
2021-09-04	2	1st	1 11 25 27 28
2021-09-02	17	1st	1 22 24 37 40
2021-08-16	7	1st	1 10 23 26 31
2021-08-09	3	1st	1 11 15 25 29
2021-08-06	11	1st	1 11 26 31 41
2021-07-26	8	1st	1 3 5 20 23
2021-07-18	20	1st	1 15 21 27 31
2021-06-28	6	1st	1 14 28 39 40
2021-06-22	22	1st	1 7 33 41 42
2021-05-31	24	1st	1 4 8 37 41
2021-05-07	9	1st	1 5 30 34 36
2021-04-28	1	1st	1 14 16 17 19
2021-04-27	1	1st	1 13 23 25 38
2021-04-26	16	1st	1 15 17 41 42
2021-04-10	13	1st	1 3 12 36 37
2021-03-28	7	1st	1 23 24 38 42
2021-03-21	9	1st	1 6 11 15 19
2021-03-12	7	1st	1 13 18 27 29
2021-03-05	1	1st	1 4 9 11 21
2021-03-04	1	1st	1 4 12 13 41
2021-03-03	18	1st	1 8 10 28 35
2021-02-13	1	1st	1 16 23 28 29
2021-02-12	11	1st	1 17 23 32 34
2021-02-01	9	1st	1 9 10 18 39
2021-01-23	17	1st	1 12 22 27 42
2021-01-06	19	1st	1 16 24 28 36
2020-12-18	3	1st	1 5 12 25 39
2020-12-15	3	1st	1 2 7 27 30
2020-12-12	1	1st	1 3 5 21 37
2020-12-11	6	1st	1 11 16 18 27
2020-12-05	9	1st	1 2 6 11 35
2020-11-26	3	1st	1 8 22 27 36
2020-11-23	8	1st	1 7 29 34 40
2020-11-15	3	1st	1 5 12 32 37
2020-11-12	3	1st	1 13 15 19 32
2020-11-09	4	1st	1 2 12 21 32
2020-11-05	1	1st	1 3 17 19 27
2020-11-04	9	1st	1 4 7 15 25
2020-10-26	23	1st	1 23 24 32 37
2020-10-03	3	1st	1 9 13 30 34
2020-09-30	3	1st	1 8 10 26 37
2020-09-27	15	1st	1 13 17 25 27
2020-09-12	3	1st	1 15 17 21 27
2020-09-09	—	1st	1 28 29 38 40