Number 5

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

10times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.34σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

11.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

23longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.34σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 107 draws · average wait 11.6 draws · longest completed wait 23 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 5 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 smallest7 · chance 6.9
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 14 30 4 12 20

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 24 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 5 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 58. 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-10	14	1st	5 10 14 29 30 45
2026-08-22	15	1st	5 10 12 14 23 41
2026-07-01	8	1st	5 10 20 23 43 52
2026-06-03	23	1st	5 8

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: 5 is drawn with probability 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.