Number 44

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.61σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

37longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, −0.61σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 139 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 4 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 44 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 0.6
4th smallest5 · chance 3.8
5th smallest7 · chance 7.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 32 14 26 5 12

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 44 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 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	6	4th	12 24 35 44 49
2026-10-01	13	5th	12 13 16 32 44
2026-09-18	1	4th	20 26 32 44 47
2026-09-17	1	4th	22 32

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