Number 27

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.07σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 14% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

18longest completed wait · 75% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.07σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 16 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 27 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 0.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.4
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.8
4th smallest6 · chance 4.6
5th smallest2 · chance 2.5
6th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 26 31 33 39 41

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-15	3	4th	21 25 26 27 29 32
2026-08-05	5	4th	6 17 25 27 31 46
2026-07-18	1	3rd	3 6 27 31 41 42
2026-07-15	7	4th

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: 27 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.