Number 52

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

108times drawn · chance expected 186 −6.11σ

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

9.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

44longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

52 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 52

Drawn 108 times in 1,616 draws against 186.5 expected, −6.11σ. 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 52, draw by draw

Drawn 108 times in 1,616 draws · average wait 9.0 draws · longest completed wait 44 · 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 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 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest108 · chance 108.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 11 51 26 47 5

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, 52 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 52 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2021-03-29	1	6th	16 34 40 45 51 52
2021-03-27	4	6th	2 11 34 36 47 52
2021-03-18	10	6th	10 20 31 33 47 52
2021-02-22

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 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

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