Number 51

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

11times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.02σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

26longest completed wait · 49% chance of one at least that long

51 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 51, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 15 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 51 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest1 · chance 1.1
5th smallest5 · chance 4.2
6th smallest5 · chance 5.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 40 48 58 1 3

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 22 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 51 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 51 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-19	10	6th	10 19 21 40 50 51
2026-07-15	6	6th	23 39 47 48 49 51
2026-06-24	2	6th	12 23 42 46 48 51
2026-06-17	3	5th	8 34

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