Number 5

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–45.

16times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.45σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 13% for any number

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

28longest completed wait · 27% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws against 14.4 expected, +0.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 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.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 15 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.

1st smallest11 · chance 9.7
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.4
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 7 16 21 32 42

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 45. 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-04	3	2nd	2 5 9 25 42 45
2026-06-13	4	1st	5 6 11 12 21 37
2026-05-16	7	1st	5 13 14 16 21 39
2026-03-28	1	3rd

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: 5 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.