Number 41

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

14times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.87σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 24% for any number

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

27longest completed wait · 36% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +0.87σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 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 41, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 92 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 12 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 41 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 0.4
4th smallest2 · chance 2.3
5th smallest7 · chance 6.0
6th smallest4 · chance 5.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

35 46 1 4 5 11

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-29	2	5th	7 17 18 32 41 48
2026-08-22	16	5th	13 27 32 35 41 44
2026-06-27	6	4th	1 4 5 41 43 46
2026-06-06	1	5th

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