Number 51

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

127times drawn · chance expected 186 −4.63σ

638draws waiting · a wait this long: <0.1% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

30longest completed wait · 97% chance of one at least that long

51 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 52

Drawn 127 times in 1,616 draws against 186.5 expected, −4.63σ. It passes even the threshold tightened for testing every number at once. Read the draw-by-draw history below before reading anything into it — and it still says nothing about the next draw.

Number 51, draw by draw

Drawn 127 times in 1,616 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 638 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 51 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 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest18 · chance 12.5
6th smallest109 · chance 114.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 12.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 23 10 20 52 6

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, 51 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 51 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2021-03-29	13	5th	16 34 40 45 51 52
2021-02-27	10	6th	10 13 19 37 41 51
2021-02-04	14	6th	1 15 33 45 48 51
2021-01-02

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

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