Number 48

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

9times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.81σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

4.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

15longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

48 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.81σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 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 48, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 52 draws · average wait 4.9 draws · longest completed wait 15 · 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 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 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.5
6th smallest3 · chance 3.1
7th smallest6 · chance 5.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 1 3 4 7 12

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 18 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 — 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 48 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-04	2	6th	11 12 17 34 45 48 52
2026-08-28	3	7th	1 7 8 10 41 42 48
2026-08-18	3	7th	4 13 21 26 39 43 48

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.