Number 51

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

96times drawn · chance expected 98 −0.19σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 54% for any number

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

42longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

51 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 10 times, counted separately.

Number 51, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 847 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 6 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 51 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 smallest9 · chance 9.4
6th smallest87 · chance 86.6

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.

25 7 13 42 43 24

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, 51 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 51 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-08-30	6	6th	8 25 29 36 46 51
2025-08-09	2	6th	4 15 38 39 41 51
2025-08-02	31	6th	6 16 25 30 50 51
2025-04-16	7	6th

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

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