In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 1 from 1–56.
5times drawn · chance expected 2 +2.21σ
24draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number
20.8average wait between appearances · chance says 56.0
42longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long
5 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 5 times in 109 draws against 1.9 expected, +2.21σ. Each draw is independent: after 24 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
5
Number 5, draw by draw
Drawn 5 times in 109 draws · average wait 20.8 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 24 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 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.
Never drawn alongside 55 of the other 55 numbers; chance expects about 55 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 56. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 1/56 tonight whatever it did last week.