Number 49

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

16times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.06σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

30longest completed wait · 49% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 15 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 49 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 0.0
5th smallest16 · chance 16.0

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.

1 22 5 23 25 29

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-20	14	5th	3 10 13 23 49
2026-07-02	20	5th	15 22 30 31 49
2026-04-23	1	5th	16 22 28 29 49
2026-04-20	11	5th	1 29 31 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: 49 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.