Number 5

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

171times drawn · chance expected 186 −1.20σ

21draws waiting · a wait this long: 9% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

49longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 171 times in 1,616 draws against 186.5 expected, −1.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 21 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 171 times in 1,616 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 49 · waiting 21 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 5 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 smallest114 · chance 111.7
2nd smallest48 · chance 51.9
3rd smallest9 · chance 7.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
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 16.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 27 40 8 19 28

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, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-03-08	6	2nd	3 5 18 22 40 44
2025-02-22	2	1st	5 9 17 19 32 38
2025-02-17	1	2nd	1 5 15 25 28 36
2025-02-15

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

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