Number 1

In Lotto Max under the 7/50 + 1/50 · May 2019 – Apr 2026 rules — 722 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

96times drawn · chance expected 101 −0.54σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

47longest completed wait · 9% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 722 draws against 101.1 expected, −0.54σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 14 times, counted separately.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 722 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 47 · 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 1 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 smallest96 · chance 96.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

45 39 2 28 19 42

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 50. 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 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-10	11	1st	1 11 16 20 28 32 45
2026-03-03	22	1st	1 3 4 18 20 23 31
2025-12-16	5	1st	1 6 31 35 37 45

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: 1 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-03-08	5	1st	1 3 6 19 21 33 47
2024-02-20	6	1st	1 4 23 24 31 40 48
2024-01-30	6	1st	1 6 12 18 26 27 40
2024-01-09	4	1st	1 2 12 20 24 26 28
2023-12-26	3	1st	1 11 13 17 42 45 49
2023-12-15	5	1st	1 2 13 15 20 21 45
2023-11-28	16	1st	1 18 25 26 30 34 39
2023-10-03	5	1st	1 7 10 15 30 34 47
2023-09-15	4	1st	1 2 11 27 31 35 44
2023-09-01	4	1st	1 7 15 30 36 37 46
2023-08-18	14	1st	1 7 29 36 40 42 50
2023-06-30	1	1st	1 13 19 26 35 42 49
2023-06-27	4	1st	1 9 25 31 34 35 38
2023-06-13	3	1st	1 2 8 12 24 44 45
2023-06-02	3	1st	1 12 16 21 29 43 49
2023-05-23	7	1st	1 7 10 18 23 24 34
2023-04-28	8	1st	1 2 12 15 35 39 45
2023-03-31	7	1st	1 3 26 28 36 47 50
2023-03-07	2	1st	1 16 26 28 31 44 45
2023-02-28	1	1st	1 3 8 24 35 42 43
2023-02-24	5	1st	1 11 15 21 35 48 49
2023-02-07	6	1st	1 13 26 30 37 42 50
2023-01-17	12	1st	1 2 5 6 16 30 45
2022-12-06	2	1st	1 2 3 14 17 19 41
2022-11-29	11	1st	1 7 8 19 32 38 39
2022-10-21	12	1st	1 9 25 35 41 43 50
2022-09-09	7	1st	1 2 15 18 29 32 36
2022-08-16	7	1st	1 2 9 21 32 33 43
2022-07-22	6	1st	1 9 19 34 37 39 49
2022-07-01	4	1st	1 11 13 14 25 36 47
2022-06-17	17	1st	1 10 12 21 30 39 40
2022-04-19	1	1st	1 6 10 27 42 45 50
2022-04-15	2	1st	1 6 18 21 30 32 37
2022-04-08	16	1st	1 2 14 15 21 26 29
2022-02-11	9	1st	1 10 12 30 33 34 36
2022-01-11	15	1st	1 3 24 25 27 36 47
2021-11-19	6	1st	1 13 14 17 25 28 41
2021-10-29	16	1st	1 5 17 18 38 41 48
2021-09-03	3	1st	1 2 4 10 27 33 45
2021-08-24	3	1st	1 24 26 29 30 45 50
2021-08-13	19	1st	1 14 17 20 28 32 38
2021-06-08	9	1st	1 9 14 24 26 37 42
2021-05-07	1	1st	1 8 17 21 35 39 46
2021-05-04	3	1st	1 23 27 33 39 45 49
2021-04-23	2	1st	1 3 4 11 19 24 42
2021-04-16	2	1st	1 13 19 27 42 49 50
2021-04-09	14	1st	1 19 28 29 31 33 43
2021-02-19	1	1st	1 5 10 18 20 40 42
2021-02-16	3	1st	1 6 12 21 34 37 47
2021-02-05	9	1st	1 2 23 32 35 36 45
2021-01-05	6	1st	1 16 21 24 35 37 39
2020-12-15	4	1st	1 4 20 33 44 45 49
2020-12-01	13	1st	1 4 9 15 18 24 31
2020-10-16	6	1st	1 4 8 10 12 17 41
2020-09-25	3	1st	1 7 9 28 38 48 50
2020-09-15	6	1st	1 5 6 24 27 28 32
2020-08-25	1	1st	1 21 34 38 39 40 46
2020-08-21	1	1st	1 2 5 11 20 30 39
2020-08-18	18	1st	1 2 16 32 44 46 50
2020-06-16	1	1st	1 3 22 30 31 37 40
2020-06-12	2	1st	1 16 24 28 30 31 47
2020-06-05	47	1st	1 8 15 16 32 39 40
2019-12-24	12	1st	1 6 12 13 19 23 38
2019-11-12	6	1st	1 14 16 22 32 39 45
2019-10-22	3	1st	1 4 6 9 25 31 43
2019-10-11	3	1st	1 3 11 13 19 22 46
2019-10-01	6	1st	1 15 19 31 40 41 43
2019-09-10	8	1st	1 15 16 20 27 38 50
2019-08-13	7	1st	1 5 38 39 42 47 49
2019-07-19	4	1st	1 15 21 29 30 31 33
2019-07-05	5	1st	1 4 8 28 32 36 43
2019-06-18	—	1st	1 6 13 15 38 42 49