Number 47

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

20draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

20longest completed wait · 62% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 20 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 4 times, counted separately.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 20 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 47 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 0.1
5th smallest2 · chance 2.3
6th smallest10 · chance 9.6

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.

26 5 17 18 33 1

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 47 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 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-01	10	6th	17 21 25 28 38 47
2026-06-27	5	6th	5 8 18 21 26 47
2026-06-10	3	6th	9 12 17 22 33 47
2026-05-30	4	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: 47 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.