Number 48

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

18times drawn · chance expected 16 +0.47σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 81% for any number

8.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

25longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long

48 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, +0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 48, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 159 draws · average wait 8.9 draws · longest completed wait 25 · 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 48 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 1.5
5th smallest18 · chance 16.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 6 12 2 7 28

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 48 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 48 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-01	1	5th	25 30 36 44 48
2026-09-28	12	5th	3 5 30 32 48
2026-08-17	1	5th	2 15 31 32 48
2026-08-13	25	5th	2 12 36 42

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