Number 7

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

11times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.65σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

29longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.65σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 108 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 5 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 7 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest4 · chance 5.5
2nd smallest7 · chance 4.3
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 9 26 30 37 40

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
The number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-23	2	2nd	6 7 9 30 31 43
2026-09-16	5	1st	7 13 15 26 37 40
2026-08-29	29	2nd	1 7 26 31 37 46
2026-05-20	13	1st

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