Number 5

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 551 draws, 5 from 1–38.

81times drawn · chance expected 73 +1.07σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 37% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

35longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 81 times in 551 draws against 72.5 expected, +1.07σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 16 times, counted separately.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 81 times in 551 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 35 · waiting 8 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 smallest53 · chance 50.2
2nd smallest26 · chance 26.8
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.9
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 8.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

37 35 4 7 10 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 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 38. 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
2026-10-15	7	2nd	2 5 9 11 22
2026-10-08	8	1st	5 10 25 26 28
2026-09-30	7	1st	5 7 17 22 38
2026-09-23	2	1st	5 15 19

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-24	35	1st	5 11 19 29 36
2026-03-20	2	1st	5 11 24 37 38
2026-03-18	5	1st	5 10 21 32 34
2026-03-13	22	2nd	4 5 23 34 35
2026-02-19	6	2nd	3 5 7 10 15
2026-02-13	8	2nd	4 5 9 21 33
2026-02-05	14	1st	5 12 14 28 29
2026-01-22	1	1st	5 16 22 35 37
2026-01-21	4	1st	5 13 15 33 35
2026-01-17	1	2nd	2 5 12 28 29
2026-01-16	2	1st	5 14 20 21 37
2026-01-14	2	1st	5 6 9 20 21
2026-01-12	1	1st	5 8 9 22 30
2026-01-11	6	2nd	1 5 8 10 34
2026-01-05	13	1st	5 10 23 25 35
2025-12-23	4	1st	5 9 14 19 34
2025-12-19	6	1st	5 25 28 33 37
2025-12-13	6	1st	5 6 7 25 33
2025-12-07	3	1st	5 6 7 8 32
2025-12-04	8	1st	5 17 28 29 33
2025-11-26	3	2nd	4 5 16 25 31
2025-11-23	9	1st	5 11 13 23 34
2025-11-14	15	2nd	4 5 12 14 23
2025-10-30	5	2nd	2 5 8 16 38
2025-10-25	7	1st	5 9 18 25 37
2025-10-18	1	1st	5 14 24 34 37
2025-10-17	3	2nd	4 5 14 20 22
2025-10-14	1	1st	5 7 15 30 32
2025-10-13	1	2nd	1 5 21 30 31
2025-10-12	3	2nd	3 5 10 15 29
2025-10-09	3	1st	5 12 25 29 37
2025-10-06	3	1st	5 11 14 26 33
2025-10-03	16	2nd	4 5 7 10 23
2025-09-17	8	2nd	3 5 31 34 35
2025-09-09	20	2nd	4 5 29 30 37
2025-08-20	7	1st	5 19 22 31 38
2025-08-13	22	1st	5 6 7 8 36
2025-07-22	1	1st	5 13 21 27 33
2025-07-21	16	1st	5 7 8 9 26
2025-07-05	7	1st	5 13 17 29 38
2025-06-28	2	1st	5 7 11 15 19
2025-06-26	3	1st	5 24 33 34 37
2025-06-23	1	1st	5 15 25 30 32
2025-06-22	9	2nd	1 5 12 18 30
2025-06-13	1	1st	5 12 23 24 35
2025-06-12	2	1st	5 26 27 28 38
2025-06-10	1	1st	5 8 11 13 22
2025-06-09	4	2nd	2 5 13 32 34
2025-06-05	8	1st	5 10 11 17 37
2025-05-28	13	3rd	1 4 5 21 23
2025-05-15	10	1st	5 8 15 16 22
2025-05-05	1	1st	5 16 19 22 35
2025-05-04	3	2nd	4 5 10 15 35
2025-05-01	4	3rd	1 2 5 8 9
2025-04-27	1	1st	5 18 23 26 37
2025-04-26	5	1st	5 18 25 29 37
2025-04-21	—	2nd	1 5 6 19 37