Gap records Lotto Plus

The longest gaps in Lotto Plus history

A gap is the number of consecutive draws in which a given number did not come up. For each of the 49 numbers we give the longest completed gap from the whole history and the gap running after the latest draw.

Record gap of each number

By longest record. "Once every" = 1/(1−p)^record: how often a gap in the random model would last that long or longer.

How we calculate this

A record is the longest completed gap of a number across the whole Lotto Plus draw history. The period from the first draw in the history to a number’s first hit is not a gap — we do not know how long it ran before — and does not count towards the record. The current gap is measured from the last hit to the latest draw and is likewise not completed, which is why it can pass the record (“record running”).

The random model assumes every number comes up in a draw with probability p = 12,24 %, independently of previous draws. Then P(gap ≥ g) = (1−p)^g, and “once per” is the inverse of that value. This is a descriptive comparison for a single gap; the gaps of different numbers in the same draws depend on one another, so we do not publish a significance test here.

Interactive tools

Explore the same data actively. The tools describe history and the random model; they do not predict the next result.

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