Number 5

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 148 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.53σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

30longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 148 draws against 18.1 expected, −0.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 148 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 4 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 smallest12 · chance 10.1
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.7
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 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 48 39 6 9 11

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 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
2026-10-07	3	1st	5 14 24 32 37 44
2026-09-26	2	2nd	4 5 23 34 48 49
2026-09-19	15	1st	5 14 15 17 27 32
2026-07-29	12	1st	5

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.