In Lotto under the 5/90 · since Oct 2025 rules — 118 draws, 5 from 1–90.
9times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.98σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 84% for any number
14.0average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0
49longest completed wait · 41% chance of one at least that long
45 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 9 times in 118 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.98σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
45
Number 45, draw by draw
Drawn 9 times in 118 draws · average wait 14.0 draws · longest completed wait 49 · 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 45 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 59 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 59 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 45 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 38th most popular of 90. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 45 is drawn with probability 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.