Number 7

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

15times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.25σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 90% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

16longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +1.25σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 2 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 7 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 smallest10 · chance 8.4
2nd smallest3 · chance 5.4
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.1
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 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 3 4 18 32 42

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	1	1st	7 18 25 36 40 44
2026-09-30	7	4th	3 4 6 7 12 46
2026-09-05	8	3rd	3 4 7 31 42 46
2026-08-08	16	1st	7 10

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