Number 5

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

87times drawn · chance expected 98 −1.15σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

38longest completed wait · 60% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 87 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, −1.15σ. 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 5, draw by draw

Drawn 87 times in 847 draws · average wait 9.6 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 5 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 smallest61 · chance 56.8
2nd smallest24 · chance 26.4
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.6
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
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 8.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 14 49 10 1 15

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, 5 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 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-20	13	2nd	4 5 14 21 34 52
2025-08-06	4	2nd	3 5 18 26 31 49
2025-07-23	3	1st	5 8 15 17 40 52
2025-07-12	8	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: 5 is drawn with probability 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

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