Number 47

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

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.61σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

24longest completed wait · 62% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, −0.61σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 139 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 9 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 47 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 0.1
4th smallest0 · chance 1.9
5th smallest12 · chance 10.1

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.

26 28 5 6 9 11

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

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 47 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 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-02	14	5th	6 17 26 35 47
2026-09-18	6	5th	20 26 32 44 47
2026-09-12	24	5th	5 9 24 29 47
2026-08-19	17	5th	11 28

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