Number 7

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

80times drawn · chance expected 88 −0.89σ

21draws waiting · a wait this long: 7% for any number

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

70longest completed wait · 1.0% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 80 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −0.89σ. Each draw is independent: after 21 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 80 times in 720 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 70 · waiting 21 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 7 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 smallest42 · chance 40.6
2nd smallest30 · chance 31.4
3rd smallest8 · chance 7.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 27 24 3 20 8

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, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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 number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2023-09-26	5	2nd	6 7 19 34 40
2023-09-21	2	2nd	4 7 13 28 41
2023-09-19	3	2nd	3 7 10 21 24
2023-09-16	10	3rd	5 6 7

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

2023-04-25	13	3rd	3 6 7 10 16
2023-04-12	7	1st	7 19 22 28 31
2023-04-05	7	2nd	6 7 8 24 29
2023-03-29	4	2nd	5 7 11 12 19
2023-03-25	5	1st	7 8 19 35 36
2023-03-20	3	1st	7 11 27 29 40
2023-03-17	2	1st	7 25 28 31 34
2023-03-15	8	1st	7 8 12 13 19
2023-03-07	6	1st	7 24 26 31 39
2023-03-01	22	1st	7 13 16 28 39
2023-02-07	22	3rd	2 5 7 34 39
2023-01-16	19	1st	7 8 10 17 38
2021-12-28	5	1st	7 12 19 35 37
2021-12-23	3	2nd	3 7 12 31 35
2021-12-20	6	1st	7 9 10 27 30
2021-12-14	28	2nd	2 7 17 20 26
2021-11-16	2	3rd	3 6 7 17 25
2021-11-14	5	1st	7 9 23 30 41
2021-11-09	13	1st	7 22 31 32 40
2021-10-27	17	1st	7 8 14 27 34
2021-10-10	9	1st	7 9 22 24 32
2021-10-01	5	2nd	1 7 8 17 24
2021-09-26	2	1st	7 24 25 31 33
2021-09-24	8	2nd	3 7 14 27 33
2021-09-16	6	1st	7 14 16 22 27
2021-09-10	15	1st	7 20 32 36 37
2021-08-26	8	1st	7 14 25 35 39
2021-08-18	8	2nd	3 7 9 12 33
2021-08-10	7	1st	7 8 15 18 26
2021-08-03	11	1st	7 14 20 26 27
2021-07-23	5	3rd	2 3 7 17 25
2021-07-18	1	2nd	5 7 15 37 41
2021-07-17	15	2nd	2 7 12 23 25
2021-07-02	8	1st	7 14 37 38 41
2021-06-24	8	1st	7 11 26 27 29
2021-06-16	1	2nd	6 7 13 27 39
2021-06-15	70	1st	7 12 31 37 39
2021-04-06	13	2nd	6 7 18 24 33
2021-03-24	17	1st	7 20 21 26 34
2021-03-07	3	2nd	6 7 14 28 35
2021-03-04	8	2nd	6 7 22 26 37
2021-02-24	2	2nd	3 7 11 28 37
2021-02-22	2	1st	7 21 27 33 38
2021-02-20	10	2nd	6 7 23 27 40
2021-02-10	3	2nd	1 7 24 27 37
2021-02-07	11	2nd	2 7 9 21 38
2021-01-27	4	1st	7 16 22 24 32
2021-01-23	8	1st	7 14 20 25 36
2021-01-15	5	1st	7 12 31 35 40
2021-01-10	18	1st	7 10 21 27 39
2020-12-23	3	1st	7 10 16 21 29
2020-12-20	12	3rd	3 6 7 20 33
2020-12-08	2	1st	7 15 25 32 41
2020-12-06	31	2nd	1 7 20 25 26
2020-11-05	4	1st	7 15 24 25 29
2020-11-01	—	1st	7 21 30 37 40