Number 41

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

87times drawn · chance expected 88 −0.09σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

8.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

32longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 87 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −0.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 87 times in 720 draws · average wait 8.2 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 7 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 41 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest87 · chance 87.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 5 8 34 37 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, 41 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-10	7	5th	8 9 29 40 41
2023-10-03	3	5th	15 18 36 40 41
2023-09-30	9	5th	10 30 38 40 41
2023-09-21	10	5th	4 7 13

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

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