Number 19

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/46 · Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 rules — 120 draws, 6 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

13times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.47σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 24% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 30% chance of one at least that long

19 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 19, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 120 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 12 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 19 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.7
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.7
4th smallest1 · chance 2.7
5th smallest2 · chance 0.7
6th smallest1 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 7 10 25 27 36

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 19 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 19 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-10-08	4	3rd	1 7 19 28 32 33
2025-09-24	5	2nd	7 19 23 24 27 48
2025-09-06	8	5th	4 10 13 14 19 34

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: 19 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.