Number 28

In El Gordo de la Primitiva under the 5/54 + 1/9 · since Jan 2010 rules — 868 draws, 5 from 1–54.

84times drawn · chance expected 80 +0.43σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

38longest completed wait · 90% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 84 times in 868 draws against 80.4 expected, +0.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 84 times in 868 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 5 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.

1st smallest4 · chance 4.3
2nd smallest15 · chance 20.1
3rd smallest33 · chance 32.7
4th smallest25 · chance 21.8
5th smallest7 · chance 5.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

45 11 51 25 1 6

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet 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 54. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-20	6	4th	1 21 23 28 45
2026-08-09	3	3rd	22 25 28 31 32
2026-07-19	1	2nd	12 28 30 38 41
2026-07-12	6	3rd	6 14

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: 28 is drawn with probability 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2022-06-12	7	4th	6 9 11 28 30
2022-04-24	12	3rd	4 15 28 35 50
2022-01-30	8	2nd	13 28 32 39 47
2021-12-05	3	2nd	8 28 33 46 51
2021-11-14	24	2nd	5 28 37 50 53
2021-05-30	27	4th	6 13 19 28 51
2020-11-22	14	3rd	18 24 28 36 45
2020-08-16	5	3rd	9 20 28 30 52
2020-07-12	12	4th	10 23 27 28 46
2020-02-09	7	3rd	1 4 28 44 49
2019-12-22	8	2nd	14 28 46 50 52
2019-10-27	13	3rd	25 26 28 29 51
2019-07-28	4	4th	1 6 12 28 54
2019-06-30	28	4th	11 13 26 28 43
2018-12-16	9	4th	11 13 26 28 48
2018-10-14	4	2nd	14 28 30 44 52
2018-09-16	8	4th	3 8 18 28 49
2018-07-22	7	3rd	8 13 28 49 52
2018-06-03	1	2nd	5 28 33 38 44
2018-05-27	23	4th	3 19 20 28 30
2017-12-17	38	4th	2 8 20 28 48
2017-03-26	20	1st	28 32 35 39 41
2016-11-06	7	3rd	6 25 28 34 44
2016-09-18	18	3rd	8 13 28 37 44
2016-05-15	7	3rd	4 6 28 31 47
2016-03-27	11	4th	15 19 21 28 33
2016-01-10	15	3rd	13 21 28 43 51
2015-09-27	3	2nd	17 28 34 36 38
2015-09-06	4	3rd	2 20 28 45 54
2015-08-09	2	1st	28 40 48 52 54
2015-07-26	1	2nd	3 28 33 39 45
2015-07-19	8	4th	10 15 25 28 40
2015-05-24	20	3rd	4 11 28 45 49
2015-01-04	28	3rd	10 22 28 31 54
2014-06-22	5	3rd	5 22 28 41 51
2014-05-18	28	4th	15 25 27 28 40
2013-11-03	17	4th	2 9 17 28 42
2013-07-07	7	3rd	11 16 28 37 44
2013-05-19	4	2nd	3 28 33 36 48
2013-04-21	9	2nd	25 28 31 41 51
2013-02-17	9	3rd	9 27 28 32 53
2012-12-16	5	3rd	9 20 28 31 50
2012-11-11	18	2nd	10 28 39 44 49
2012-07-08	3	2nd	19 28 29 33 45
2012-06-17	1	3rd	4 17 28 35 45
2012-06-10	1	5th	1 2 8 12 28
2012-06-03	38	5th	2 6 20 25 28
2011-09-11	16	4th	11 23 27 28 45
2011-05-22	12	5th	1 3 7 15 28
2011-02-27	8	5th	11 12 21 23 28
2011-01-02	11	4th	1 8 20 28 31
2010-10-17	1	1st	28 31 34 37 47
2010-10-10	6	4th	14 15 17 28 46
2010-08-29	2	3rd	20 23 28 45 51
2010-08-15	8	4th	3 6 23 28 40
2010-06-20	9	2nd	15 28 31 45 52
2010-04-18	1	4th	5 10 11 28 37
2010-04-11	2	4th	14 16 27 28 29
2010-03-28	4	3rd	2 12 28 36 46
2010-02-28	—	3rd	12 24 28 29 45