Number 5

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

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 13% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

19longest completed wait · 99% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, +0.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 14 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 5 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 smallest43 · chance 46.1
2nd smallest27 · chance 27.3
3rd smallest8 · chance 4.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
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.

31 16 21 1 3 8

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, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-08-25	13	1st	5 11 12 16 31
2025-07-25	2	2nd	1 5 8 22 31
2025-07-21	14	1st	5 14 16 21 26
2025-06-16	2	2nd	1 5

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

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