Number 27

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.44σ

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

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

32longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.44σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 32 · 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 27 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 0.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.8
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.7
4th smallest4 · chance 5.6
5th smallest4 · chance 3.1
6th smallest1 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 3 12 14 23 31

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-19	4	5th	5 14 15 17 27 32
2026-09-05	1	3rd	17 23 27 31 46 49
2026-09-02	1	4th	3 4 11 27 41 47
2026-08-29	10	3rd	11

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