Number 1

In Lotto America under the 5/52 + 1/10 · since Nov 2017 rules — 1,156 draws, 5 from 1–52.

130times drawn · chance expected 111 +1.88σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 67% for any number

8.9average wait between appearances · chance says 10.4

40longest completed wait · 92% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 130 times in 1,156 draws against 111.2 expected, +1.88σ. 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 130 times in 1,156 draws · average wait 8.9 draws · longest completed wait 40 · 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 smallest130 · chance 130.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

35 24 36 10 14 8

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
2026-10-10	2	1st	1 9 16 21 23
2026-10-05	9	1st	1 19 22 37 47
2026-09-14	3	1st	1 10 26 47 52
2026-09-07	11	1st	1 15 24

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 5/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-08-11	1	1st	1 9 23 25 42
2025-08-09	2	1st	1 9 24 37 40
2025-08-04	25	1st	1 8 18 22 42
2025-06-07	1	1st	1 17 19 36 43
2025-06-04	6	1st	1 6 26 41 51
2025-05-21	11	1st	1 14 15 19 31
2025-04-26	21	1st	1 9 14 31 34
2025-03-08	5	1st	1 30 31 36 43
2025-02-24	22	1st	1 21 30 35 41
2025-01-04	1	1st	1 3 17 21 34
2025-01-01	13	1st	1 2 8 14 30
2024-12-02	15	1st	1 20 37 39 47
2024-10-28	3	1st	1 10 22 28 41
2024-10-21	13	1st	1 4 20 24 26
2024-09-21	5	1st	1 4 8 37 45
2024-09-09	1	1st	1 10 20 24 40
2024-09-07	17	1st	1 4 9 33 37
2024-07-29	6	1st	1 26 44 51 52
2024-07-15	10	1st	1 7 10 40 41
2024-06-22	17	1st	1 26 37 39 44
2024-05-13	40	1st	1 15 16 26 47
2024-02-10	2	1st	1 3 18 21 42
2024-02-05	30	1st	1 15 17 24 29
2023-11-27	8	1st	1 8 23 25 50
2023-11-08	9	1st	1 3 23 45 52
2023-10-18	28	1st	1 5 14 16 48
2023-08-14	2	1st	1 26 31 33 50
2023-08-09	2	1st	1 10 12 33 39
2023-08-05	1	1st	1 36 38 41 43
2023-08-02	5	1st	1 18 33 41 51
2023-07-22	14	1st	1 20 23 36 41
2023-06-19	3	1st	1 14 20 30 33
2023-06-12	8	1st	1 29 32 41 46
2023-05-24	20	1st	1 23 24 35 43
2023-04-08	30	1st	1 14 35 37 39
2023-01-28	27	1st	1 24 34 37 52
2022-11-26	7	1st	1 27 31 46 52
2022-11-09	6	1st	1 5 7 15 52
2022-10-26	8	1st	1 10 26 35 39
2022-10-08	11	1st	1 4 9 14 49
2022-09-12	16	1st	1 6 9 11 20
2022-08-06	7	1st	1 8 13 18 40
2022-07-20	3	1st	1 15 23 42 48
2022-07-13	2	1st	1 18 21 26 39
2022-07-06	15	1st	1 3 8 14 50
2022-05-14	7	1st	1 10 30 33 44
2022-04-20	6	1st	1 3 25 29 30
2022-03-30	3	1st	1 6 23 35 36
2022-03-19	3	1st	1 7 11 27 32
2022-03-09	1	1st	1 3 6 8 49
2022-03-05	6	1st	1 10 30 36 49
2022-02-12	5	1st	1 14 28 42 47
2022-01-26	6	1st	1 8 22 23 29
2022-01-05	6	1st	1 4 17 45 50
2021-12-15	9	1st	1 9 24 25 47
2021-11-13	5	1st	1 10 11 27 35
2021-10-27	9	1st	1 5 27 36 41
2021-09-25	6	1st	1 10 29 32 36
2021-09-04	17	1st	1 5 24 25 28
2021-07-07	6	1st	1 4 19 24 43
2021-06-16	12	1st	1 14 22 28 41
2021-05-05	12	1st	1 12 26 36 52
2021-03-24	1	1st	1 37 39 40 42
2021-03-20	15	1st	1 2 18 37 47
2021-01-27	11	1st	1 10 36 37 38
2020-12-19	7	1st	1 9 15 28 35
2020-11-25	10	1st	1 7 12 38 40
2020-10-21	11	1st	1 35 36 37 46
2020-09-12	6	1st	1 2 19 22 35
2020-08-22	1	1st	1 33 45 48 49
2020-08-19	1	1st	1 8 17 35 45
2020-08-15	30	1st	1 20 24 27 34
2020-05-02	16	1st	1 37 40 48 51
2020-03-07	9	1st	1 13 14 24 25
2020-02-05	1	1st	1 2 18 26 36
2020-02-01	5	1st	1 6 8 21 23
2020-01-15	1	1st	1 11 38 50 51
2020-01-11	1	1st	1 21 25 30 34
2020-01-08	6	1st	1 11 31 38 49
2019-12-18	8	1st	1 4 17 18 30
2019-11-20	5	1st	1 4 29 46 47
2019-11-02	5	1st	1 10 31 40 50
2019-10-16	1	1st	1 5 9 15 33
2019-10-12	2	1st	1 17 20 25 44
2019-10-05	39	1st	1 3 21 25 32
2019-05-22	7	1st	1 2 8 11 35
2019-04-27	5	1st	1 11 44 47 52
2019-04-10	18	1st	1 14 16 24 50
2019-02-06	4	1st	1 15 35 41 47
2019-01-23	5	1st	1 4 27 34 47
2019-01-05	4	1st	1 19 29 32 50
2018-12-22	6	1st	1 16 20 41 44
2018-12-01	2	1st	1 30 34 40 45
2018-11-24	15	1st	1 10 11 17 28
2018-10-03	1	1st	1 14 31 36 40
2018-09-29	2	1st	1 6 9 28 33
2018-09-22	3	1st	1 7 38 43 47
2018-09-12	3	1st	1 23 24 42 51
2018-09-01	13	1st	1 8 14 31 39
2018-07-18	38	1st	1 5 8 11 32
2018-03-07	6	1st	1 2 13 20 36
2018-02-14	3	1st	1 2 13 15 28
2018-02-03	6	1st	1 4 41 44 45
2018-01-13	13	1st	1 12 32 33 47
2017-11-29	1	1st	1 4 5 16 38
2017-11-25	—	1st	1 7 16 25 26