Number 46

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.36σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 25% for any number

10.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

44longest completed wait · 11% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 140 draws · average wait 10.4 draws · longest completed wait 44 · waiting 14 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 46 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 0.2
4th smallest3 · chance 2.8
5th smallest10 · chance 10.0

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.

8 12 23 34 3 4

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 16 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	1	5th	7 12 13 23 46
2026-09-27	6	5th	8 23 27 34 46
2026-09-21	15	5th	8 29 34 37 46
2026-09-06	10	5th	3 16

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