Number 41

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

11times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.63σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

4.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

13longest completed wait · 86% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +1.63σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 52 draws · average wait 4.5 draws · longest completed wait 13 · 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 0.0
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.2
4th smallest1 · chance 1.0
5th smallest4 · chance 3.1
6th smallest2 · chance 4.4
7th smallest3 · chance 2.3

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.

8 1 42 52 9 11

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 14 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 — 34th most popular of 52. 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
2026-10-02	2	6th	2 4 20 23 25 41 47
2026-09-25	2	4th	8 24 38 41 43 50 52
2026-09-18	2	7th	6 8 11 14 30 39 41

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.