Number 7

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

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.40σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

22longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws against 14.4 expected, −0.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 smallest6 · chance 6.0
2nd smallest6 · chance 5.3
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.5
4th smallest1 · chance 0.2
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 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 18 24 26 36 2

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 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 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	5	2nd	2 7 13 27 39 40
2026-08-29	16	1st	7 13 16 26 36 37
2026-05-09	6	1st	7 11 18 35 36 45
2026-03-28	8	4th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.