Number 5

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 95 draws, 6 from 1–49.

9times drawn · chance expected 12 −0.82σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

11.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

21longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 95 draws against 11.6 expected, −0.82σ. 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 3 times, counted separately.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 95 draws · average wait 11.3 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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 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 smallest7 · chance 5.7
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.4
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 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 27 41 46 4 6

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 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 49. 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
2026-10-17	10	1st	5 6 22 27 31 45
2026-09-12	21	1st	5 13 15 27 28 46
2026-07-01	1	1st	5 22 24 25 34 49
2026-06-27	12	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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.