Number 44

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

10times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.40σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

14longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −0.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 92 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 14 · waiting 7 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 44 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 smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.7
5th smallest4 · chance 3.6
6th smallest6 · chance 5.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 27 28 7 17 22

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 44 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 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-16	7	5th	28 30 34 38 44 46
2026-08-22	14	6th	13 27 32 35 41 44
2026-07-04	7	6th	17 18 27 32 36 44
2026-06-10	3	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: 44 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.