Number 52

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

91times drawn · chance expected 98 −0.72σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

38longest completed wait · 62% chance of one at least that long

52 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 91 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, −0.72σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 16 times, counted separately.

Number 52, draw by draw

Drawn 91 times in 847 draws · average wait 9.2 draws · longest completed wait 38 · 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 52 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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest91 · chance 91.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

50 14 19 27 1 5

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, 52 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 52 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-20	1	6th	4 5 14 21 34 52
2025-09-17	6	6th	12 18 23 27 38 52
2025-08-27	9	6th	3 11 17 28 44 52
2025-07-26	1	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: 52 is drawn with probability 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

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