Number 46

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.03σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 38% for any number

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

34longest completed wait · 35% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 158 draws against 16.1 expected, −0.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 158 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 10 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 46 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 smallest1 · chance 0.2
4th smallest4 · chance 3.5
5th smallest11 · chance 12.3

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.

37 1 5 13 17 31

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

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-03	15	5th	13 17 18 36 46
2026-07-13	15	5th	5 24 32 37 46
2026-05-21	2	5th	2 10 13 26 46
2026-05-14	12	4th	19 21 37 46

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