Number 1

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

83times drawn · chance expected 88 −0.55σ

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

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

43longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −0.55σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 720 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 43 · 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 1 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 smallest83 · chance 83.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 27 8 29 2 11

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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-15	9	1st	1 3 19 22 38
2023-10-06	1	1st	1 5 12 17 29
2023-10-05	6	1st	1 6 8 10 13
2023-09-29	28	1st	1 2 15

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: 1 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-04-18	43	1st	1 16 17 18 25
2023-03-06	1	1st	1 5 6 19 30
2023-03-05	7	1st	1 18 27 33 36
2023-02-26	3	1st	1 5 13 25 38
2023-02-23	18	1st	1 19 34 36 40
2023-02-05	8	1st	1 15 16 19 28
2023-01-28	1	1st	1 21 22 27 29
2023-01-27	4	1st	1 5 13 21 38
2023-01-23	32	1st	1 5 17 26 41
2021-12-22	4	1st	1 4 15 20 22
2021-12-18	1	1st	1 4 8 22 24
2021-12-17	5	1st	1 3 5 16 27
2021-12-12	13	1st	1 6 10 13 41
2021-11-29	4	1st	1 9 11 16 31
2021-11-25	4	1st	1 3 11 16 25
2021-11-21	8	1st	1 6 16 23 30
2021-11-13	11	1st	1 5 8 21 33
2021-11-02	32	1st	1 34 35 39 41
2021-10-01	11	1st	1 7 8 17 24
2021-09-20	17	1st	1 10 14 16 27
2021-09-03	15	1st	1 10 13 21 23
2021-08-19	14	1st	1 5 11 22 37
2021-08-05	1	1st	1 22 29 30 32
2021-08-04	10	1st	1 3 8 21 38
2021-07-25	1	1st	1 8 12 34 38
2021-07-24	8	1st	1 3 8 9 32
2021-07-16	10	1st	1 2 9 16 29
2021-07-06	2	1st	1 9 12 23 32
2021-07-04	12	1st	1 4 8 11 18
2021-06-22	23	1st	1 2 20 25 27
2021-05-30	5	1st	1 2 9 22 27
2021-05-25	12	1st	1 14 21 35 36
2021-05-13	8	1st	1 6 10 12 31
2021-05-05	2	1st	1 19 23 32 34
2021-05-03	3	1st	1 5 31 36 41
2021-04-30	10	1st	1 4 12 28 33
2021-04-20	2	1st	1 5 13 20 34
2021-04-18	22	1st	1 11 13 31 35
2021-03-27	1	1st	1 15 17 19 21
2021-03-26	15	1st	1 26 30 40 41
2021-03-11	21	1st	1 2 9 34 40
2021-02-18	3	1st	1 11 24 27 29
2021-02-15	4	1st	1 30 33 36 37
2021-02-11	1	1st	1 20 22 25 29
2021-02-10	7	1st	1 7 24 27 37
2021-02-03	1	1st	1 14 29 30 36
2021-02-02	2	1st	1 5 32 34 36
2021-01-31	6	1st	1 8 12 31 34
2021-01-25	4	1st	1 5 13 15 25
2021-01-21	3	1st	1 23 25 31 37
2021-01-18	4	1st	1 4 18 27 38
2021-01-14	2	1st	1 3 17 31 37
2021-01-12	13	1st	1 2 18 26 40
2020-12-30	3	1st	1 4 12 20 21
2020-12-27	12	1st	1 4 17 30 35
2020-12-15	9	1st	1 4 14 20 28
2020-12-06	15	1st	1 7 20 25 26
2020-11-21	15	1st	1 11 21 27 28
2020-11-06	—	1st	1 9 13 30 31