Number 6

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

94times drawn · chance expected 88 +0.71σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

31longest completed wait · 85% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 94 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, +0.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 720 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 31 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 6 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 smallest54 · chance 53.9
2nd smallest31 · chance 33.7
3rd smallest8 · chance 6.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 3 5 7 23 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, 6 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 6 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-10-17	1	1st	6 8 14 37 39
2023-10-16	11	2nd	4 6 9 16 18
2023-10-05	9	2nd	1 6 8 10 13
2023-09-26	10	1st	6 7 19

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

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