Number 28

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

12times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.75σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

10.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

21longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 120 draws · average wait 10.0 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.1
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.3
4th smallest4 · chance 4.3
5th smallest4 · chance 2.6
6th smallest0 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 6 7 14 38 43

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-11-22	12	3rd	8 20 28 42 46 48
2025-10-08	1	4th	1 7 19 28 32 33
2025-10-04	6	5th	3 14 17 20 28 46

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