Number 28

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

77times drawn · chance expected 88 −1.23σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

33longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −1.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 720 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 5 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 28 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 smallest0 · chance 0.6
2nd smallest8 · chance 6.5
3rd smallest26 · chance 23.1
4th smallest28 · chance 32.0
5th smallest15 · chance 14.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 19 32 39 4 18

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, 28 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 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-12	21	5th	14 22 23 25 28
2023-09-21	1	4th	4 7 13 28 41
2023-09-20	7	4th	2 5 22 28 37
2023-09-13	4	5th	3 9 21

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

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