Number 19

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 rules — 720 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

73times drawn · chance expected 88 −1.69σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

9.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

42longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

19 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 73 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −1.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 19, draw by draw

Drawn 73 times in 720 draws · average wait 9.9 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 2 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 19 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 smallest9 · chance 5.8
2nd smallest22 · chance 22.1
3rd smallest25 · chance 28.2
4th smallest14 · chance 14.3
5th smallest3 · chance 2.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 3 6 21 32 40

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 19 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 41. 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 19 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-15	8	3rd	1 3 19 22 38
2023-10-07	5	2nd	8 19 22 31 32
2023-10-02	6	3rd	8 18 19 20 30
2023-09-26	9	3rd	6 7 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: 19 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-03-25	6	3rd	7 8 19 35 36
2023-03-19	4	1st	19 31 32 33 40
2023-03-15	9	5th	7 8 12 13 19
2023-03-06	3	4th	1 5 6 19 30
2023-03-03	8	3rd	6 13 19 23 29
2023-02-23	8	2nd	1 19 34 36 40
2023-02-15	3	4th	9 11 15 19 32
2023-02-12	2	1st	19 21 24 29 41
2023-02-10	5	1st	19 22 31 37 41
2023-02-05	15	4th	1 15 16 19 28
2023-01-21	19	3rd	3 6 19 27 29
2023-01-02	5	2nd	3 19 29 31 35
2021-12-28	32	3rd	7 12 19 35 37
2021-11-26	7	3rd	6 13 19 26 38
2021-11-19	2	1st	19 24 25 31 35
2021-11-17	9	2nd	3 19 28 32 36
2021-11-08	5	3rd	12 16 19 21 27
2021-11-03	17	2nd	4 19 26 33 40
2021-10-17	3	3rd	3 18 19 27 37
2021-10-14	12	2nd	2 19 21 31 36
2021-10-02	40	1st	19 28 30 32 39
2021-08-23	9	2nd	13 19 23 27 32
2021-08-14	2	3rd	13 14 19 21 33
2021-08-12	12	3rd	12 16 19 28 29
2021-07-31	3	2nd	2 19 28 31 33
2021-07-28	7	3rd	4 10 19 37 39
2021-07-21	14	4th	4 11 17 19 30
2021-07-07	9	3rd	6 11 19 21 23
2021-06-28	9	2nd	13 19 23 24 28
2021-06-19	8	1st	19 20 28 32 36
2021-06-11	3	2nd	5 19 35 37 38
2021-06-08	4	2nd	16 19 32 34 37
2021-06-04	7	3rd	8 18 19 28 40
2021-05-28	23	3rd	12 13 19 33 41
2021-05-05	9	2nd	1 19 23 32 34
2021-04-26	7	4th	14 17 18 19 21
2021-04-19	12	2nd	8 19 21 40 41
2021-04-07	10	4th	2 9 15 19 21
2021-03-28	1	3rd	4 14 19 25 30
2021-03-27	6	4th	1 15 17 19 21
2021-03-21	16	2nd	14 19 22 27 28
2021-03-05	12	3rd	16 17 19 27 30
2021-02-21	15	2nd	9 19 29 35 37
2021-02-06	42	3rd	6 17 19 30 37
2020-12-26	5	2nd	12 19 26 27 39
2020-12-21	28	3rd	9 18 19 30 40
2020-11-23	13	2nd	3 19 28 33 40
2020-11-10	10	3rd	5 11 19 22 35
2020-10-31	—	3rd	8 12 19 28 37