Number 29

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

92times drawn · chance expected 88 +0.48σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

7.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

46longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 92 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, +0.48σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 92 times in 720 draws · average wait 7.8 draws · longest completed wait 46 · waiting 4 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 29 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 0.5
2nd smallest5 · chance 6.2
3rd smallest22 · chance 25.1
4th smallest34 · chance 39.6
5th smallest31 · chance 20.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 27 9 12 16 21

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, 29 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 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-13	3	3rd	8 11 29 30 33
2023-10-10	2	3rd	8 9 29 40 41
2023-10-08	2	4th	3 14 25 29 34
2023-10-06	9	5th	1 5 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: 29 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

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