Number 44

In BC/49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2024 rules — 202 draws, 6 from 1–49.

18times drawn · chance expected 25 −1.45σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

50longest completed wait · 3% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 202 draws against 24.7 expected, −1.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 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 44, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 202 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 50 · waiting 3 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 44 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 0.1
4th smallest3 · chance 1.3
5th smallest6 · chance 6.5
6th smallest9 · chance 10.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

20 46 26 35 18 21

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 44 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 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	2	5th	2 26 34 35 44 48
2026-09-23	50	5th	14 20 38 42 44 48
2026-04-01	10	5th	28 32 33 39 44 46
2026-02-25	8	6th	1

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