In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.
19times drawn · chance expected 11 +2.46σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number
4.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2
20longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long
27 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 19 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +2.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.
27
Number 27, draw by draw
Drawn 19 times in 92 draws · average wait 4.7 draws · longest completed wait 20 · 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 27 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 27 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.
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: 27 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.