Number 55

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

7times drawn · chance expected 11 −1.29σ

56draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.2% for any number

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

15longest completed wait · 77% chance of one at least that long

55 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −1.29σ. Each draw is independent: after 56 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 55, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 56 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 55 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 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest2 · chance 1.6
6th smallest5 · chance 5.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

38 9 12 24 32 33

Never drawn alongside 31 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 31 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 55 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 55 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-28	8	6th	6 12 26 40 41 55
2026-02-25	1	6th	7 11 12 32 38 55
2026-02-21	10	6th	2 8 39 43 45 55
2026-01-17	4	5th	24 32

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