Number 40

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

9times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.72σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

10.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

25longest completed wait · 30% chance of one at least that long

40 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −0.72σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 40, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 92 draws · average wait 10.6 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 6 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 40 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.3
4th smallest1 · chance 1.7
5th smallest3 · chance 3.9
6th smallest4 · chance 3.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 27 36 1 6 19

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 40 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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 above 31 ×0.86
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 40 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-19	5	6th	1 15 20 23 36 40
2026-09-02	2	5th	2 19 27 34 40 47
2026-08-26	20	6th	11 17 19 27 37 40
2026-06-17	16	6th

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