Number 29

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.82σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

5.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

15longest completed wait · 94% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +1.82σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 92 draws · average wait 5.3 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 2 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 29 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 0.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.3
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.3
4th smallest4 · chance 6.2
5th smallest4 · chance 4.1
6th smallest2 · chance 1.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 45 42 1 8 13

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 29 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 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	1	4th	12 15 19 29 42 47
2026-09-30	7	5th	6 13 15 18 29 35
2026-09-05	5	5th	11 12 13 15 29 42
2026-08-19	4	3rd

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