In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.
22times drawn · chance expected 11 +3.41σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
4.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2
11longest completed wait · >99% chance of one at least that long
28 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 49 numbers
Drawn 22 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +3.41σ. Testing all 49 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4 and this does not pass it. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.
28
Number 28, draw by draw
Drawn 22 times in 92 draws · average wait 4.2 draws · longest completed wait 11 · drawn in the most recent draw
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 28 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 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 5 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 28 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: 28 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.