In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 1/10 · Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 524 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).
68times drawn · chance expected 75 −0.86σ
5draws waiting · a wait this long: 54% for any number
7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0
28longest completed wait · 65% chance of one at least that long
14 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 68 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, −0.86σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
14
Number 14, draw by draw
Drawn 68 times in 524 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 28 · 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 14 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 14 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 35. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 14 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.