Number 27

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

100times drawn · chance expected 88 +1.39σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

29longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 100 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, +1.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 100 times in 720 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 3 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 27 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest9 · chance 10.4
3rd smallest32 · chance 32.4
4th smallest44 · chance 39.8
5th smallest14 · chance 16.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 21 31 1 7 29

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, 27 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 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-14	3	3rd	2 18 27 31 32
2023-10-11	10	3rd	14 25 27 30 36
2023-10-01	3	3rd	2 25 27 37 38
2023-09-28	4	5th	9 10 12

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

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