Number 27

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 1/10 · Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 524 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

78times drawn · chance expected 75 +0.39σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

32longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, +0.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 11 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 27 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 0.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.4
3rd smallest17 · chance 15.3
4th smallest28 · chance 35.0
5th smallest30 · chance 25.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 4 24 25 10 15

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, 27 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.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-01	1	5th	4 7 21 24 27
2025-08-29	1	5th	8 16 18 21 27
2025-08-27	7	5th	10 12 17 19 27
2025-08-11	3	3rd	7 12

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: 27 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-09-06	5	3rd	7 16 27 28 34
2024-08-26	1	3rd	3 19 27 33 34
2024-08-23	13	5th	1 5 21 26 27
2024-07-24	12	4th	3 22 25 27 34
2024-06-26	6	5th	1 13 15 21 27
2024-06-12	1	3rd	18 22 27 29 31
2024-06-10	5	5th	7 9 19 24 27
2024-05-29	5	5th	13 15 19 22 27
2024-05-17	3	5th	10 13 16 21 27
2024-05-10	8	5th	15 20 24 26 27
2024-04-22	1	4th	6 20 23 27 31
2024-04-19	5	4th	6 7 9 27 35
2024-04-08	1	4th	1 12 26 27 34
2024-04-05	7	4th	1 15 25 27 34
2024-03-18	4	4th	2 23 26 27 32
2024-03-08	10	3rd	10 15 27 28 34
2024-02-14	9	4th	5 24 25 27 29
2024-01-24	6	5th	9 11 25 26 27
2024-01-10	26	4th	5 6 16 27 35
2023-11-06	6	5th	3 14 15 21 27
2023-10-23	7	2nd	13 27 30 31 32
2023-10-06	13	4th	10 11 20 27 33
2023-09-06	1	3rd	8 24 27 31 32
2023-09-04	5	4th	7 11 23 27 28
2023-08-23	1	4th	2 9 20 27 28
2023-08-21	1	5th	5 11 22 24 27
2023-08-18	17	5th	13 16 21 24 27
2023-07-10	6	3rd	6 26 27 30 35
2023-06-26	1	5th	1 16 23 24 27
2023-06-23	27	4th	14 19 20 27 34
2023-04-21	10	4th	12 22 24 27 28
2023-03-27	22	4th	7 11 18 27 32
2023-02-03	2	3rd	9 25 27 31 33
2023-01-30	6	3rd	4 12 27 32 33
2023-01-16	5	5th	1 9 19 23 27
2022-12-30	4	2nd	13 27 28 29 31
2022-12-19	2	4th	4 7 24 27 29
2022-12-14	2	4th	8 11 16 27 28
2022-12-09	4	3rd	2 4 27 29 33
2022-11-30	1	5th	4 15 17 18 27
2022-11-28	5	5th	9 10 17 22 27
2022-11-16	8	4th	15 19 21 27 32
2022-10-28	4	5th	1 13 15 18 27
2022-10-19	3	5th	4 17 22 25 27
2022-10-12	5	5th	10 13 21 26 27
2022-09-30	1	5th	3 11 17 19 27
2022-09-28	23	4th	5 12 21 27 31
2022-08-05	11	4th	18 21 23 27 33
2022-07-11	6	3rd	21 23 27 29 31
2022-06-24	8	3rd	6 16 27 31 34
2022-06-06	9	4th	4 22 25 27 33
2022-05-16	3	5th	5 10 14 23 27
2022-05-09	5	4th	12 15 25 27 35
2022-04-27	—	3rd	10 11 27 28 32