Number 49

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

9times drawn · chance expected 13 −1.24σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

26longest completed wait · 27% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −1.24σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 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 49, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 108 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 11 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 49 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 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest9 · chance 9.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 8 11 12 17 22

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-02	25	6th	8 11 23 29 35 49
2026-06-06	5	6th	3 8 20 28 30 49
2026-05-20	5	6th	7 9 17 30 43 49
2026-05-02	15	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: 49 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.