Number 1

In Lotto under the 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 rules — 1,616 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).

173times drawn · chance expected 186 −1.05σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 61% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

41longest completed wait · 72% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 173 times in 1,616 draws against 186.5 expected, −1.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 173 times in 1,616 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 41 · 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 1 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 smallest173 · chance 173.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 17.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 3 26 7 39 12

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 52. 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 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-04-14	13	1st	1 8 12 24 29 42
2025-03-15	11	1st	1 8 26 36 43 49
2025-02-17	3	1st	1 5 15 25 28 36
2025-02-10

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: 1 is drawn with probability 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-02-29	35	1st	1 5 15 31 32 48
2023-12-09	5	1st	1 2 8 18 40 42
2023-11-27	35	1st	1 13 16 23 30 37
2023-09-07	17	1st	1 14 16 33 39 49
2023-07-29	8	1st	1 12 22 33 35 38
2023-07-10	2	1st	1 4 9 25 42 47
2023-07-06	2	1st	1 7 25 43 44 46
2023-07-01	8	1st	1 16 18 41 46 49
2023-06-12	6	1st	1 7 26 30 32 41
2023-05-29	21	1st	1 4 14 20 37 43
2023-04-10	3	1st	1 2 11 17 18 24
2023-04-03	5	1st	1 15 22 26 36 46
2023-03-23	13	1st	1 7 12 13 15 21
2023-02-20	38	1st	1 7 9 12 21 36
2022-11-24	9	1st	1 29 37 46 47 48
2022-11-03	10	1st	1 2 4 7 8 19
2022-10-10	5	1st	1 12 28 44 47 48
2022-09-29	23	1st	1 2 16 21 32 38
2022-08-06	4	1st	1 14 30 43 48 50
2022-07-28	5	1st	1 2 15 31 39 48
2022-07-16	4	1st	1 5 14 16 17 45
2022-07-07	4	1st	1 14 16 39 42 49
2022-06-27	6	1st	1 15 22 35 36 40
2022-06-13	2	1st	1 4 21 22 27 30
2022-06-09	9	1st	1 12 22 37 38 50
2022-05-19	2	1st	1 24 33 35 39 42
2022-05-14	4	1st	1 2 16 18 23 47
2022-05-05	9	1st	1 3 12 19 38 44
2022-04-14	2	1st	1 12 13 21 22 44
2022-04-09	19	1st	1 6 16 17 48 50
2022-02-24	9	1st	1 2 21 26 34 42
2022-02-03	24	1st	1 2 11 26 38 40
2021-12-09	1	1st	1 14 32 34 37 43
2021-12-06	3	1st	1 15 26 27 31 40
2021-11-29	4	1st	1 3 5 8 9 41
2021-11-20	15	1st	1 14 17 32 34 41
2021-10-16	4	1st	1 6 13 20 26 42
2021-10-07	2	1st	1 3 27 34 42 50
2021-10-02	12	1st	1 14 18 26 39 49
2021-09-04	2	1st	1 4 7 15 16 17
2021-08-30	25	1st	1 3 8 10 30 39
2021-07-03	25	1st	1 16 18 23 24 46
2021-05-06	9	1st	1 18 29 35 39 41
2021-04-15	1	1st	1 16 24 33 36 43
2021-04-12	4	1st	1 7 15 27 42 44
2021-04-03	23	1st	1 4 9 29 43 49
2021-02-08	2	1st	1 16 30 34 38 47
2021-02-04	11	1st	1 15 33 45 48 51
2021-01-09	8	1st	1 11 30 38 41 52
2020-12-21	6	1st	1 14 18 20 27 28
2020-12-07	2	1st	1 22 29 45 46 51
2020-12-03	5	1st	1 8 22 44 49 52
2020-11-21	3	1st	1 17 26 28 51 52
2020-11-14	30	1st	1 17 22 34 36 51
2020-09-05	11	1st	1 7 10 29 40 41
2020-08-10	10	1st	1 15 17 26 34 48
2020-07-18	1	1st	1 2 20 26 43 44
2020-07-16	10	1st	1 20 25 32 33 35
2020-06-22	29	1st	1 8 10 24 35 46
2020-04-16	4	1st	1 18 22 43 47 52
2020-04-06	5	1st	1 3 6 23 24 35
2020-03-26	15	1st	1 8 9 13 24 41
2020-02-20	8	1st	1 3 25 26 33 40
2020-02-01	1	1st	1 3 6 8 23 47
2020-01-30	2	1st	1 12 15 24 28 48
2020-01-25	11	1st	1 7 13 26 41 42
2019-12-30	7	1st	1 3 6 9 17 23
2019-12-14	25	1st	1 2 17 21 44 49
2019-10-17	7	1st	1 18 21 29 31 39
2019-09-30	7	1st	1 9 24 30 49 52
2019-09-14	1	1st	1 3 12 16 19 37
2019-09-12	19	1st	1 15 19 22 29 51
2019-07-29	12	1st	1 12 13 28 36 43
2019-07-01	3	1st	1 9 35 44 46 48
2019-06-24	1	1st	1 7 10 17 33 42
2019-06-22	1	1st	1 21 24 31 35 45
2019-06-20	5	1st	1 9 18 36 40 48
2019-06-08	7	1st	1 13 21 23 40 45
2019-05-23	3	1st	1 22 26 39 42 52
2019-05-16	9	1st	1 28 29 33 39 45
2019-04-25	4	1st	1 3 11 38 41 45
2019-04-15	5	1st	1 6 20 26 45 46
2019-04-04	1	1st	1 3 10 23 31 49
2019-04-01	1	1st	1 7 19 24 30 49
2019-03-30	11	1st	1 32 43 46 51 52
2019-03-04	5	1st	1 12 29 37 47 50
2019-02-21	2	1st	1 29 31 39 41 51
2019-02-16	7	1st	1 9 16 25 39 51
2019-01-31	11	1st	1 11 12 22 27 40
2019-01-05	13	1st	1 2 9 21 22 52
2018-12-06	1	1st	1 3 23 28 31 40
2018-12-03	8	1st	1 2 20 22 41 51
2018-11-15	17	1st	1 6 11 30 38 40
2018-10-06	8	1st	1 7 8 27 38 44
2018-09-17	1	1st	1 3 16 18 26 47
2018-09-15	8	1st	1 6 8 11 15 17
2018-08-27	2	1st	1 20 32 37 42 49
2018-08-23	6	1st	1 9 13 19 29 50
2018-08-09	6	1st	1 7 25 31 44 52
2018-07-26	7	1st	1 8 19 24 31 45
2018-07-09	21	1st	1 11 14 18 31 39
2018-05-21	17	1st	1 11 12 16 50 52
2018-04-12	19	1st	1 8 25 29 31 46
2018-02-26	5	1st	1 11 20 31 38 44
2018-02-15	26	1st	1 8 12 15 30 39
2017-12-16	3	1st	1 4 25 27 46 50
2017-12-09	41	1st	1 21 23 24 32 51
2017-09-04	3	1st	1 4 5 8 9 19
2017-08-28	16	1st	1 13 17 21 32 41
2017-07-22	26	1st	1 27 34 38 42 49
2017-05-22	5	1st	1 28 33 34 35 49
2017-05-11	23	1st	1 7 9 17 28 30
2017-03-18	40	1st	1 3 14 20 30 35
2016-12-15	5	1st	1 6 7 20 51 52
2016-12-03	6	1st	1 4 20 24 33 44
2016-11-19	3	1st	1 16 17 18 39 43
2016-11-12	12	1st	1 7 10 13 28 46
2016-10-15	21	1st	1 9 15 28 29 31
2016-08-27	29	1st	1 11 18 26 28 48
2016-06-20	8	1st	1 9 17 21 34 51
2016-06-02	1	1st	1 3 4 6 17 40
2016-05-30	3	1st	1 7 17 23 34 35
2016-05-23	3	1st	1 5 15 38 43 45
2016-05-16	4	1st	1 12 16 39 41 52
2016-05-07	10	1st	1 3 8 16 29 46
2016-04-14	6	1st	1 2 7 14 39 44
2016-03-31	3	1st	1 2 5 15 26 43
2016-03-24	1	1st	1 3 26 28 48 49
2016-03-21	5	1st	1 7 35 36 42 43
2016-03-10	2	1st	1 4 13 29 33 48
2016-03-05	8	1st	1 16 33 36 41 47
2016-02-15	22	1st	1 9 11 17 28 41
2015-12-26	7	1st	1 6 9 26 43 49
2015-12-10	18	1st	1 17 25 30 39 48
2015-10-29	2	1st	1 7 17 39 46 49
2015-10-24	3	1st	1 5 21 45 49 50
2015-10-17	8	1st	1 3 7 16 36 52
2015-09-28	2	1st	1 3 19 28 30 44
2015-09-24	2	1st	1 6 27 36 47 50
2015-09-19	2	1st	1 16 20 22 31 44
2015-09-14	26	1st	1 6 16 21 33 38
2015-07-16	34	1st	1 6 23 31 32 33
2015-04-27	8	1st	1 20 22 25 31 45
2015-04-09	9	1st	1 12 14 19 24 26
2015-03-19	4	1st	1 2 3 13 16 26
2015-03-09	8	1st	1 3 8 25 39 45
2015-02-19	5	1st	1 6 40 45 47 49
2015-02-07	2	1st	1 13 16 29 30 39
2015-02-02	—	1st	1 15 27 29 43 45