In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–45.
21times drawn · chance expected 14 +1.87σ
1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number
4.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5
33longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long
28 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 21 times in 108 draws against 14.4 expected, +1.87σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.
28
Number 28, draw by draw
Drawn 21 times in 108 draws · average wait 4.9 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 1 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 28 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 4 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 28 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 45. 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: 28 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.