Number 1

In Lotto under the 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 rules — 847 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).

111times drawn · chance expected 98 +1.43σ

21draws waiting · a wait this long: 9% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

33longest completed wait · 89% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 111 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, +1.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 21 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 14 times, counted separately.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 111 times in 847 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 33 · 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 1 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 smallest111 · chance 111.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 49 14 26 36 42

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 52. 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 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-07-09	3	1st	1 8 12 13 31 35
2025-06-28	2	1st	1 13 18 20 47 50
2025-06-21	4	1st	1 28 32 39 41 48
2025-06-07	3	1st

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: 1 is drawn with probability 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-07-12	15	1st	1 4 14 29 38 52
2023-05-20	1	1st	1 17 22 30 37 42
2023-05-17	33	1st	1 27 34 41 42 51
2023-01-21	5	1st	1 13 14 22 41 52
2023-01-04	8	1st	1 18 25 30 46 48
2022-12-07	1	1st	1 5 18 45 47 52
2022-12-03	6	1st	1 12 26 33 50 52
2022-11-12	3	1st	1 11 45 48 51 52
2022-11-02	4	1st	1 7 22 33 39 40
2022-10-19	9	1st	1 5 14 29 40 52
2022-09-17	14	1st	1 7 22 34 39 46
2022-07-30	1	1st	1 9 13 34 35 37
2022-07-27	18	1st	1 7 36 41 49 51
2022-05-25	9	1st	1 6 12 17 31 45
2022-04-23	1	1st	1 9 18 24 34 51
2022-04-20	15	1st	1 6 25 26 39 47
2022-02-26	11	1st	1 11 14 27 46 47
2022-01-19	13	1st	1 14 21 33 37 49
2021-12-01	10	1st	1 8 9 17 39 50
2021-10-27	4	1st	1 26 31 38 44 48
2021-10-13	22	1st	1 10 26 35 38 49
2021-07-28	5	1st	1 5 13 22 27 28
2021-07-10	14	1st	1 9 13 32 37 39
2021-05-22	1	1st	1 10 26 35 46 50
2021-05-19	8	1st	1 6 12 16 35 45
2021-04-21	2	1st	1 7 10 11 23 31
2021-04-14	1	1st	1 5 8 19 26 48
2021-04-10	3	1st	1 13 24 25 43 46
2021-03-31	2	1st	1 16 39 47 49 52
2021-03-24	4	1st	1 23 41 42 45 49
2021-03-10	6	1st	1 7 16 41 45 52
2021-02-17	2	1st	1 3 6 25 35 43
2021-02-10	8	1st	1 10 12 15 21 42
2021-01-13	8	1st	1 3 15 25 36 48
2020-12-16	8	1st	1 2 29 33 36 50
2020-11-18	7	1st	1 8 20 27 42 44
2020-10-24	3	1st	1 24 30 32 39 49
2020-10-14	2	1st	1 35 45 49 51 52
2020-10-07	12	1st	1 16 22 26 42 45
2020-08-26	2	1st	1 11 12 41 43 49
2020-08-19	1	1st	1 7 26 27 42 49
2020-08-15	17	1st	1 13 15 19 26 32
2020-06-17	10	1st	1 32 35 36 40 52
2020-05-13	2	1st	1 5 6 8 10 18
2020-05-06	1	1st	1 16 28 29 32 49
2020-05-02	3	1st	1 11 14 19 31 43
2020-04-22	13	1st	1 2 14 20 33 38
2020-03-07	6	1st	1 9 12 14 30 48
2020-02-15	4	1st	1 7 20 23 45 48
2020-02-01	11	1st	1 13 16 25 42 47
2019-12-21	9	1st	1 3 15 29 35 45
2019-11-20	2	1st	1 10 22 32 40 49
2019-11-13	14	1st	1 17 22 26 28 34
2019-09-25	6	1st	1 2 5 6 10 49
2019-09-04	12	1st	1 14 21 40 42 44
2019-07-24	5	1st	1 11 29 36 43 46
2019-07-06	7	1st	1 21 26 29 38 41
2019-06-12	7	1st	1 2 31 34 43 50
2019-05-18	3	1st	1 5 13 20 36 52
2019-05-08	4	1st	1 27 28 31 37 50
2019-04-24	2	1st	1 4 8 28 50 52
2019-04-17	2	1st	1 19 38 42 50 51
2019-04-10	19	1st	1 6 13 18 36 47
2019-02-02	11	1st	1 6 19 28 32 48
2018-12-26	7	1st	1 6 12 15 20 29
2018-12-01	19	1st	1 16 19 29 45 49
2018-09-26	6	1st	1 3 29 37 40 41
2018-09-05	1	1st	1 7 15 22 29 31
2018-09-01	4	1st	1 11 14 25 26 29
2018-08-18	13	1st	1 18 29 31 35 36
2018-07-04	3	1st	1 6 7 17 31 36
2018-06-23	11	1st	1 10 13 35 41 42
2018-05-16	14	1st	1 2 22 31 36 48
2018-03-28	1	1st	1 6 17 18 22 26
2018-03-24	1	1st	1 3 12 24 31 49
2018-03-21	8	1st	1 11 19 32 49 50
2018-02-21	3	1st	1 14 17 26 36 49
2018-02-10	27	1st	1 16 17 18 41 52
2017-11-08	3	1st	1 24 38 39 47 51
2017-10-28	4	1st	1 6 19 38 45 46
2017-10-14	3	1st	1 5 21 22 33 44
2017-10-04	8	1st	1 25 27 33 35 38
2017-09-06	1	1st	1 7 24 29 44 51
2017-09-02	2	1st	1 3 4 21 25 30
2017-08-26	1	1st	1 25 28 34 36 49
2017-08-23	4	1st	1 6 7 26 27 40
2017-08-09	—	1st	1 10 20 27 32 46