Number 5

In Palmetto Cash 5 under the 5/38 · Apr 2010 – Mar 2024 rules — 2,502 draws, 5 from 1–38 (an earlier era).

332times drawn · chance expected 329 +0.16σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 43% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

38longest completed wait · 83% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 332 times in 2,502 draws against 329.2 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 332 times in 2,502 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 7 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 smallest199 · chance 205.7
2nd smallest118 · chance 109.7
3rd smallest14 · chance 15.9
4th smallest1 · chance 0.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 35.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 32 28 35 4 31

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
2024-03-10	4	1st	5 8 9 18 28
2024-03-06	8	2nd	1 5 6 21 37
2024-02-27	4	2nd	1 5 9 10 16
2024-02-23	4	2nd	2

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.

2023-08-20	1	2nd	1 5 14 28 30
2023-08-19	4	2nd	3 5 10 34 36
2023-08-15	3	2nd	4 5 10 12 32
2023-08-12	5	1st	5 9 20 32 36
2023-08-07	7	2nd	2 5 10 16 26
2023-07-31	5	1st	5 24 28 36 37
2023-07-26	4	1st	5 6 22 34 35
2023-07-22	12	1st	5 6 12 31 32
2023-07-10	2	2nd	1 5 21 23 24
2023-07-08	9	1st	5 10 16 29 30
2023-06-29	3	2nd	3 5 8 12 28
2023-06-26	5	3rd	1 2 5 32 37
2023-06-21	3	2nd	2 5 16 18 30
2023-06-18	3	2nd	1 5 7 8 24
2023-06-15	7	1st	5 17 18 27 35
2023-06-08	5	2nd	4 5 6 11 36
2023-06-03	3	2nd	4 5 13 29 31
2023-05-31	8	1st	5 11 17 24 35
2023-05-23	1	2nd	1 5 14 15 25
2023-05-22	7	1st	5 6 22 34 36
2023-05-15	8	2nd	4 5 21 30 32
2023-05-07	1	1st	5 6 11 21 28
2023-05-06	7	1st	5 16 21 22 35
2023-04-29	3	2nd	2 5 19 25 27
2023-04-26	14	2nd	3 5 17 28 36
2023-04-12	2	1st	5 16 17 29 35
2023-04-10	3	2nd	1 5 13 27 28
2023-04-07	1	1st	5 9 18 31 34
2023-04-06	2	1st	5 15 33 34 35
2023-04-04	5	1st	5 13 27 31 34
2023-03-30	4	1st	5 17 18 24 29
2023-03-26	6	1st	5 9 14 24 29
2023-03-20	3	1st	5 14 22 29 35
2023-03-17	2	2nd	4 5 8 13 35
2023-03-15	4	2nd	1 5 15 27 29
2023-03-11	5	2nd	4 5 17 20 22
2023-03-06	13	2nd	2 5 8 18 36
2023-02-21	5	3rd	1 3 5 6 23
2023-02-16	1	1st	5 8 9 28 31
2023-02-15	4	2nd	2 5 29 30 36
2023-02-11	4	1st	5 10 17 20 25
2023-02-07	25	1st	5 10 12 27 38
2023-01-13	3	1st	5 14 29 32 35
2023-01-10	1	2nd	2 5 25 26 34
2023-01-09	1	2nd	1 5 13 22 38
2023-01-08	4	1st	5 11 14 20 22
2023-01-04	2	1st	5 19 24 30 38
2023-01-02	1	1st	5 19 26 28 32
2023-01-01	1	1st	5 17 18 24 32
2015-12-31	16	1st	5 19 21 22 23
2015-12-15	9	2nd	4 5 17 18 37
2015-12-06	3	1st	5 10 19 35 36
2015-12-03	2	2nd	2 5 10 26 32
2015-12-01	4	2nd	2 5 12 13 33
2015-11-27	10	1st	5 8 30 32 37
2015-11-17	3	2nd	1 5 24 29 30
2015-11-14	1	1st	5 15 18 19 27
2015-11-13	7	1st	5 14 16 28 34
2015-11-06	7	1st	5 8 24 26 27
2015-10-30	2	2nd	1 5 6 28 35
2015-10-28	8	3rd	1 2 5 8 9
2015-10-20	4	1st	5 7 14 34 36
2015-10-16	5	1st	5 14 27 29 32
2015-10-11	13	1st	5 9 31 35 36
2015-09-28	4	1st	5 13 15 22 27
2015-09-24	11	2nd	1 5 17 23 30
2015-09-13	3	3rd	2 3 5 24 33
2015-09-10	5	1st	5 9 29 34 35
2015-09-05	7	1st	5 6 16 17 28
2015-08-29	2	1st	5 12 29 32 38
2015-08-27	5	1st	5 9 15 17 31
2015-08-22	5	1st	5 10 13 19 22
2015-08-17	6	2nd	3 5 29 30 38
2015-08-11	7	2nd	4 5 14 15 32
2015-08-04	3	1st	5 18 24 31 38
2015-08-01	5	1st	5 9 19 23 26
2015-07-27	4	1st	5 13 20 24 38
2015-07-23	15	1st	5 15 16 29 30
2015-07-08	4	1st	5 8 12 14 18
2015-07-04	1	2nd	3 5 20 33 36
2015-07-03	14	2nd	3 5 11 30 35
2015-06-19	9	1st	5 8 9 12 27
2015-06-10	6	1st	5 11 12 14 32
2015-06-04	10	2nd	3 5 6 8 36
2015-05-25	5	1st	5 6 13 25 34
2015-05-20	2	1st	5 6 16 26 30
2015-05-18	3	1st	5 10 17 27 38
2015-05-15	2	2nd	2 5 15 27 33
2015-05-13	6	1st	5 11 21 30 38
2015-05-07	23	1st	5 12 25 28 37
2015-04-14	2	1st	5 9 14 24 26
2015-04-12	5	2nd	4 5 7 26 31
2015-04-07	3	1st	5 11 32 34 35
2015-04-04	16	2nd	4 5 21 32 33
2015-03-19	3	2nd	2 5 19 28 32
2015-03-16	9	1st	5 12 14 15 21
2015-03-07	19	1st	5 8 16 25 38
2015-02-16	24	1st	5 9 19 25 33
2015-01-23	6	1st	5 13 16 29 35
2015-01-17	2	1st	5 11 26 31 32
2015-01-15	6	2nd	3 5 12 27 36
2015-01-09	5	2nd	2 5 18 27 35
2015-01-04	7	1st	5 9 12 30 31
2014-12-28	14	1st	5 19 25 29 32
2014-12-14	3	1st	5 11 22 25 31
2014-12-11	18	2nd	2 5 14 26 29
2014-11-23	3	1st	5 20 26 35 38
2014-11-20	10	2nd	3 5 12 19 38
2014-11-10	1	1st	5 23 32 33 36
2014-11-09	3	1st	5 11 15 22 36
2014-11-06	13	2nd	4 5 14 22 28
2014-10-24	7	1st	5 6 15 21 23
2014-10-17	8	3rd	2 3 5 7 18
2014-10-09	6	1st	5 14 18 30 31
2014-10-03	6	1st	5 17 23 29 33
2014-09-27	6	2nd	3 5 18 19 27
2014-09-21	4	2nd	4 5 6 23 36
2014-09-17	1	1st	5 10 23 30 33
2014-09-16	4	2nd	3 5 10 15 22
2014-09-12	2	1st	5 9 21 26 28
2014-09-10	7	2nd	2 5 9 31 32
2014-09-03	1	2nd	4 5 17 19 21
2014-09-02	14	1st	5 9 19 25 33
2014-08-19	26	1st	5 19 22 31 38
2014-07-24	21	1st	5 12 18 24 27
2014-07-03	5	1st	5 11 17 21 23
2014-06-28	3	2nd	1 5 7 8 16
2014-06-25	28	1st	5 7 12 19 21
2014-05-28	8	2nd	4 5 10 20 35
2014-05-20	10	1st	5 17 28 30 35
2014-05-10	1	2nd	2 5 6 30 36
2014-05-09	1	1st	5 19 29 34 36
2014-05-08	16	2nd	2 5 13 15 21
2014-04-22	22	2nd	4 5 7 9 10
2014-03-31	14	2nd	2 5 16 19 22
2014-03-17	7	1st	5 9 13 19 33
2014-03-10	7	2nd	4 5 8 24 32
2014-03-03	6	1st	5 6 9 15 35
2014-02-25	18	1st	5 9 27 29 35
2014-02-07	5	1st	5 10 15 17 26
2014-02-02	4	1st	5 24 29 33 37
2014-01-29	11	2nd	2 5 17 30 38
2014-01-18	8	1st	5 8 11 22 28
2014-01-10	2	1st	5 8 14 16 37
2014-01-08	2	2nd	2 5 20 26 31
2014-01-06	7	1st	5 6 7 11 14
2013-12-30	4	1st	5 9 15 32 38
2013-12-26	7	1st	5 8 18 19 34
2013-12-19	8	1st	5 9 12 16 20
2013-12-11	4	1st	5 10 11 31 32
2013-12-07	4	1st	5 11 21 31 38
2013-12-03	18	2nd	3 5 25 30 35
2013-11-15	1	2nd	1 5 20 34 36
2013-11-14	12	1st	5 7 15 18 30
2013-11-02	24	2nd	4 5 11 34 36
2013-10-09	4	2nd	3 5 9 12 28
2013-10-05	5	1st	5 14 25 33 37
2013-09-30	1	2nd	3 5 22 26 38
2013-09-29	1	1st	5 14 24 30 34
2013-09-28	6	3rd	1 4 5 13 19
2013-09-22	14	1st	5 15 27 34 38
2013-09-08	31	1st	5 15 24 30 34
2013-08-08	7	2nd	3 5 7 14 32
2013-08-01	2	1st	5 9 21 24 25
2013-07-30	6	1st	5 6 17 20 26
2013-07-24	9	1st	5 10 13 23 37
2013-07-15	2	1st	5 18 21 32 35
2013-07-13	2	1st	5 20 27 33 34
2013-07-11	9	1st	5 7 26 28 34
2013-07-02	3	2nd	4 5 21 27 31
2013-06-29	11	2nd	3 5 15 23 29
2013-06-18	21	1st	5 12 15 26 27
2013-05-28	5	2nd	1 5 16 20 36
2013-05-23	20	1st	5 6 9 14 22
2013-05-03	10	2nd	4 5 24 27 34
2013-04-23	9	1st	5 20 29 31 35
2013-04-14	9	2nd	2 5 9 24 28
2013-04-05	11	1st	5 18 20 32 36
2013-03-25	2	2nd	4 5 9 15 33
2013-03-23	4	1st	5 18 20 24 32
2013-03-19	3	1st	5 9 13 37 38
2013-03-16	1	1st	5 8 12 15 16
2013-03-15	8	1st	5 11 21 30 34
2013-03-07	1	2nd	4 5 15 16 28
2013-03-06	1	1st	5 6 12 17 38
2013-03-05	7	2nd	2 5 20 22 28
2013-02-26	13	1st	5 15 18 19 21
2013-02-13	8	2nd	2 5 22 23 37
2013-02-05	9	2nd	2 5 6 9 38
2013-01-27	3	1st	5 10 11 25 33
2013-01-24	25	1st	5 13 18 31 32
2012-12-30	16	2nd	1 5 20 22 27
2012-12-14	4	2nd	2 5 7 13 37
2012-12-10	13	1st	5 8 10 19 23
2012-11-27	3	2nd	3 5 27 32 33
2012-11-24	27	1st	5 18 25 32 35
2012-10-28	1	1st	5 14 17 32 36
2012-10-27	14	1st	5 6 11 32 37
2012-10-13	20	1st	5 12 23 28 37
2012-09-23	13	2nd	2 5 6 20 25
2012-09-10	16	1st	5 16 27 30 33
2012-08-25	3	1st	5 18 21 28 36
2012-08-22	7	2nd	1 5 19 37 38
2012-08-15	8	1st	5 14 16 27 31
2012-08-07	7	1st	5 7 17 19 34
2012-07-31	3	1st	5 8 14 16 18
2012-07-28	11	2nd	4 5 9 17 35
2012-07-17	16	1st	5 21 33 34 35
2012-07-01	21	2nd	2 5 10 14 28
2012-06-10	10	1st	5 18 22 23 33
2012-05-31	13	2nd	1 5 18 23 26
2012-05-18	5	3rd	1 4 5 18 30
2012-05-13	1	1st	5 18 23 27 31
2012-05-12	9	2nd	2 5 26 30 37
2012-05-03	4	1st	5 16 22 25 29
2012-04-29	1	2nd	1 5 11 21 38
2012-04-28	25	1st	5 14 19 20 23
2012-04-03	17	1st	5 10 20 31 33
2012-03-17	3	1st	5 7 17 26 35
2012-03-14	8	3rd	3 4 5 8 27
2012-03-06	2	1st	5 16 25 31 35
2012-03-04	6	1st	5 19 24 31 38
2012-02-27	14	1st	5 6 14 17 37
2012-02-13	2	1st	5 6 21 26 34
2012-02-11	12	2nd	3 5 26 34 37
2012-01-30	12	1st	5 18 21 28 32
2012-01-18	9	2nd	4 5 17 22 30
2012-01-09	4	2nd	4 5 24 25 35
2012-01-05	2	2nd	2 5 22 28 32
2012-01-03	1	2nd	4 5 10 29 36
2012-01-02	1	1st	5 6 23 24 31
2012-01-01	6	2nd	3 5 11 25 38
2011-12-26	9	1st	5 16 23 28 29
2011-12-17	7	1st	5 9 11 17 37
2011-12-10	3	1st	5 17 19 21 31
2011-12-07	12	1st	5 13 17 29 32
2011-11-25	16	1st	5 15 17 18 26
2011-11-09	2	2nd	4 5 7 37 38
2011-11-07	1	1st	5 14 23 27 33
2011-11-06	5	1st	5 13 19 28 31
2011-11-01	9	1st	5 15 26 32 35
2011-10-23	5	1st	5 13 16 25 28
2011-10-18	4	1st	5 28 30 35 36
2011-10-14	13	2nd	4 5 16 31 32
2011-10-01	5	1st	5 10 28 31 38
2011-09-26	10	1st	5 11 13 16 20
2011-09-16	1	3rd	2 3 5 21 37
2011-09-15	8	1st	5 14 21 30 31
2011-09-07	16	2nd	2 5 29 30 36
2011-08-22	14	1st	5 15 17 25 29
2011-08-08	21	2nd	3 5 6 16 31
2011-07-18	10	1st	5 7 17 25 37
2011-07-08	4	1st	5 6 14 31 34
2011-07-04	8	2nd	2 5 23 30 38
2011-06-26	15	2nd	2 5 11 20 21
2011-06-11	5	1st	5 22 32 33 35
2011-06-06	5	1st	5 9 20 34 36
2011-06-01	7	1st	5 7 8 15 19
2011-05-25	6	2nd	1 5 13 21 25
2011-05-19	12	1st	5 11 17 34 37
2011-05-07	5	2nd	3 5 12 19 22
2011-05-02	5	1st	5 7 20 26 32
2011-04-27	21	2nd	1 5 13 19 33
2011-04-06	14	2nd	4 5 6 26 31
2011-03-23	19	1st	5 9 18 20 36
2011-03-04	16	1st	5 10 11 16 33
2011-02-16	12	1st	5 19 26 27 36
2011-02-04	6	2nd	1 5 28 30 38
2011-01-29	3	1st	5 11 15 18 22
2011-01-26	6	1st	5 11 21 31 32
2011-01-20	4	2nd	2 5 14 28 33
2011-01-16	1	1st	5 15 18 22 25
2011-01-15	12	2nd	1 5 14 17 33
2011-01-03	1	1st	5 8 10 14 35
2011-01-02	4	2nd	1 5 19 37 38
2010-12-29	11	1st	5 20 27 34 37
2010-12-18	3	2nd	3 5 10 15 22
2010-12-15	4	1st	5 13 14 18 21
2010-12-11	7	1st	5 8 9 10 36
2010-12-04	1	3rd	3 4 5 6 15
2010-12-03	2	1st	5 15 22 23 32
2010-12-01	18	1st	5 8 12 15 34
2010-11-10	12	2nd	2 5 12 28 34
2010-10-27	4	1st	5 21 23 25 30
2010-10-22	3	2nd	2 5 24 31 38
2010-10-19	4	1st	5 6 7 25 32
2010-10-14	3	2nd	1 5 9 23 30
2010-10-11	8	1st	5 11 26 33 38
2010-10-01	2	1st	5 28 31 34 37
2010-09-29	13	1st	5 20 25 28 34
2010-09-14	4	1st	5 12 21 31 33
2010-09-09	10	1st	5 12 16 20 24
2010-08-28	10	1st	5 7 18 21 22
2010-08-17	17	1st	5 9 13 23 25
2010-07-28	3	1st	5 7 22 25 26
2010-07-24	10	1st	5 19 26 28 37
2010-07-13	8	2nd	4 5 13 23 35
2010-07-03	1	2nd	4 5 8 12 29
2010-07-02	4	1st	5 6 14 22 28
2010-06-28	18	1st	5 13 15 18 23
2010-06-07	7	1st	5 8 22 23 30
2010-05-29	17	1st	5 10 19 29 34
2010-05-10	1	3rd	2 4 5 12 20
2010-05-08	2	2nd	2 5 17 27 34
2010-05-06	12	1st	5 10 11 17 30
2010-04-22	1	3rd	1 2 5 26 35
2010-04-21	3	2nd	2 5 16 30 35
2010-04-17	—	4th	2 3 4 5 35