Number 46

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

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.36σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 24% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

24longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 12 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 46 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 0.3
5th smallest4 · chance 3.1
6th smallest8 · chance 8.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 6 12 18 36 4

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-29	7	6th	1 7 26 31 37 46
2026-08-05	2	6th	6 17 25 27 31 46
2026-07-29	8	6th	6 38 39 41 43 46
2026-07-01	11	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: 46 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.