Number 28

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.69σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

26longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, −0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 101 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 26 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 28 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 smallest1 · chance 0.4
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.0
4th smallest1 · chance 4.3
5th smallest6 · chance 3.9
6th smallest2 · chance 1.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 14 21 27 31 4

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 28 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 42. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-17	7	2nd	5 28 30 32 35 38
2026-09-23	13	6th	2 3 9 11 14 28
2026-08-08	6	5th	13 16 19 21 28 31
2026-07-18	26	3rd

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: 28 is drawn with probability 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.