Number 4

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

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

36longest completed wait · 30% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, +0.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 1 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 4 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 smallest49 · chance 52.9
2nd smallest27 · chance 22.7
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

9 12 22 24 27 2

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, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-24	10	2nd	2 4 7 12 23
2025-09-01	10	1st	4 7 21 24 27
2025-08-08	1	1st	4 6 20 21 28
2025-08-06	2	1st	4 11

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

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