Number 47

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

9times drawn · chance expected 15 −1.59σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 35% for any number

13.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

39longest completed wait · 5% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −1.59σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 120 draws · average wait 13.5 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 9 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 47 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 smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest1 · chance 1.7
6th smallest8 · chance 7.2

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.

41 21 22 4 16 25

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 47 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 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-10-18	11	6th	4 13 15 21 41 47
2025-09-10	21	6th	5 21 26 31 46 47
2025-06-28	7	6th	3 16 17 25 43 47

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