Number 41

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 16 +0.20σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 90% for any number

9.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

25longest completed wait · 72% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, +0.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 159 draws · average wait 9.0 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 2 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 41 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 0.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.9
4th smallest5 · chance 6.9
5th smallest10 · chance 8.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

25 32 9 8 21 33

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 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 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-05	6	3rd	14 33 41 42 45
2026-09-14	2	4th	7 8 19 41 44
2026-09-07	14	5th	9 17 25 32 41
2026-07-20	6	5th	19 21 25 36

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: 41 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.