Number 52

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

73times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.86σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 91% for any number

11.7average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

49longest completed wait · 49% chance of one at least that long

52 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 73 times in 868 draws against 80.4 expected, −0.86σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 52, draw by draw

Drawn 73 times in 868 draws · average wait 11.7 draws · longest completed wait 49 · 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 52 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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.3
4th smallest9 · chance 10.4
5th smallest64 · chance 62.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 29 13 25 49 51

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 52 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 52 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-11	19	5th	5 27 43 49 52
2026-05-31	1	5th	28 29 41 45 52
2026-05-24	12	5th	4 17 38 41 52
2026-03-01	10	5th	3 13

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

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