Number 45

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

13times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.47σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

20longest completed wait · 65% chance of one at least that long

45 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 45, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 120 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 1 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 45 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 0.0
4th smallest1 · chance 0.6
5th smallest3 · chance 4.1
6th smallest9 · chance 8.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 21 25 27 32 35

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 45 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 45 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-11-19	7	6th	4 20 25 29 35 45
2025-10-22	17	5th	1 14 40 42 45 48
2025-08-23	12	6th	20 23 31 35 37 45

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